Bug#350924: hplip fails to configure without shadow passwords

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

severity 350924 minor
reassign 350924 adduser
thanks

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006, Patrick Strasser wrote:
> 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.

hplip just calls adduser. adduser calls chage.  So, this bug belongs to the
adduser package :-)

> 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.

AFAIK Debian is dropping support for shadow-less systems, so I am reducing
the bug severity to minor before reassigning it.  It is up to the adduser
maintainer to decide what to do with this bug.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh