Bug#350924: hplip fails to configure without shadow passwords
Package: hplip
Version: 0.9.7-4
Severity: important
Install hplip results in
Setting up hplip (0.9.7-4) ...
Creating/updating hplip user account...
chage: the shadow password file is not present
adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 hplip' returned error code 15. Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing user `hplip'.
as manpage for chage states:
The chage program requires shadow password file to be available. Its
functionality is not available when passwords are stored in the passwd
file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.67 Add and remove users and groups
ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii cupsys 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-data 0.9.7-4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library
ii libsnmp9 5.2.1.2-4 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-5 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lsb-base 3.0-9 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii python 2.3.5-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-qt3 3.15-4 Qt3 bindings for Python (default v
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hpijs 2.1.7+0.9.7-4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii hplip-ppds 0.9.7-4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - PP
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