hey dan, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Daniel wrote: > > > Well that was the problem: I installed Debian fresh on this system using > > > the Sarge RC installer back in December I think. When it configured > > > passwd it never even asked me if I wanted shadow passwords and I forgot > > > about it. So shadow passwords were not being used on the system. i can't be certain without reinstalling some system with an official sarge installer (i suppose i could deboostrap+base-config, but i still wouldn't be 100% certain), but i'm fairly certain shadow passwords are the default these days. looking in the debconf templates for the shadow package included in the installer iso, i see the default for the shadow question in true though... i'll cc this to debian-boot to see if someone could verify this. > > so in your opinion, should this bug be closed or should i reorganize > > this bug as "nagios does not work on systems without shadow passwords"? > > in my opinion you should reorganize it because there definitely was a problem on the system > without shadow passwords and because i think that the debian installer - > at least some versions of it - were not asking if they should be enabled > when setting up passwd. so it is possible that a good number of systems > do not have shadow passwords enabled and could run into this same > problem. or maybe you could close it and just have the installer do a > quick test to see if shadow is enabled and then warn about it? in any case i think not installing for systems w/o shadow passwords is a bug, so i'll leave it open in some form or another. but what i don't know is how severe this is, which imo is in large part dependant on what the installer does. sean --
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