Bug 239018

Summary:	/etc/login.defs overwrites customer config
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Calvin Smith <casmith>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	4.5	CC:	sgrubb
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Description Calvin Smith 2007-05-04 13:46:19 UTC

Description of problem:
If you have made changes to the /etc/login.defs configuration file, shadow-utils
4.0.3-61 will not install unless you use the up2date -f option and then it
overwrites the already installed version of the login.defs file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.3-61

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modify /etc/login.defs
2. up2date -uf shadow-utils
3. 
  
Actual results:
the old /etc/login.defs is moved to /etc/login.defs.rpmsave and the new
/etc/login.defs replaces it.

Expected results:
the new /etc/login.defs should be saved to /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2007-05-14 13:35:11 UTC

login.defs should be marked as noreplace. This problem is fixed since 
shadow-utils-4.0.16-1. bz. #190014.

Comment 2 Calvin Smith 2007-05-14 13:56:30 UTC

I found that bug, but it doesn't seem as though the fix was backported into the
RHEL 4 tree.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-26 15:25:40 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 16:08:22 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0832.html