[Bug 1495580] Re: chfn needs to learn about the --extrausers argument and use libnss-extrausers files when set

[Brian Murray]

Hello Oliver, or anyone else affected,

Accepted shadow into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
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advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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Title:
  chfn needs to learn about the --extrausers argument and use libnss-
  extrausers files when set

Status in Snappy:
  Fix Released
Status in shadow package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in shadow source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in shadow source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  as seen in bug 1492327, adduser now works for creating users in the
  extrausers db but when it tries to update the GECOS field at the end
  of adding a user (interactively and noninteractively) chfn falls over
  ...

  chfn needs similar patches to the other shadow binaries that recently
  got extrausers support.

  TEST CASE:
  - create a user "foo" on an Ubuntu Core system
  - run "chfn --extrausers -f some-name foo" on an Ubuntu Core system

  REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
  - low: this requires the new (and optional) --extrausers switch to change anything.

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