Bug 54850

Summary: Error creating/modifying user accounts.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Chris Kloiber <ckloiber>
Component: redhat-config-usersAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
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Version: roswellCC: nalin
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Description Chris Kloiber 2001-10-21 00:53:34 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Create a user and set a password using redhat-config-users, then look at
the /etc/shadow file and you will see:

foo:$1$iyzcUR3o$c5CGQJkzFq5LQIMvyoIiA0:11616:-1:99999:-1:-1:-1:

Those -1's shouldn't be there. I have also seen it occasionally write 0's
to some of those locations, causing error messages at login like:

Your account will expire in 0 days.

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

redhat-config-users-0.9.2-6

How Reproducible:

always. you don't even need to change a users' settings just look at them
and hit apply.
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-10-23 04:32:26 UTC 
nalin, any opinion here?  Should I just set the value to be null so that things
look like:
foo:$1$iyzcUR3o$c5CGQJkzFq5LQIMvyoIiA0:11616::99999::::
instead of:
foo:$1$iyzcUR3o$c5CGQJkzFq5LQIMvyoIiA0:11616:-1:99999:-1:-1:-1:
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-01-08 17:26:37 UTC 
Nalin, any input here?
Comment 3 Brent Fox 2002-01-31 17:43:55 UTC 
Nalin is changing libuser (the backend that redhat-config-users uses) so that
libuser will do the right thing if you try to set it to -1.  This will be fixed
in the next version of libuser and redhat-config-users.  Resolving as Rawhide.