[Cpu-users] CPU, debian, and some bug reports...

[Guido T. <ult...@de...>]

Hi,

As you know Paul J Stevens and me have been working on an official Debian
package for cpu. 

The status is that cpu 1.4.1 has found its way into the debian archive,
there is a version in unstable and another one in testing, and it will
quite probably ship with the Debian GNU/Linux sarge, to be released as
Debian stable one of the next months.

Now the main focus is on preparing a package for 1.4.2. Anyway we've had
some bug reports in the Debian BTS about cpu, and we'd like to share them
with you, and have a comment on whether they have been fixed in 1.4.2 or
will be fixed in some other version...

The reported problems are:

#215258: cpu: problematic error recovery
	If cpu fails to create a user for some reason it exists. 
	But at that stage is has already created a group for the user. 
	Please try to clean up after the error and remove the new group 
	as well so the ldap directory will be left in its original state.

	As extra information for this bugreport: it is impossible to remove
	the leftover group with cpu, since it will complain that it is a 
	users' primary group and can not be removed.


#215298: cpu: strange error removing groups
	This is somewhat unexpected:

	vortex:~# cpu useradd -E debug debug
	User debug successfully added!
	vortex:~# cpu usermod -g 100 debug
	User debug successfully modified!
	vortex:~# cpu groupdel debug
	ldap: checkIsPrimaryGroup: ldap_search_st: No such object (32)
	groupdel: cannot remove user's primary group.
	ldap: CPU_init: Error in ldapOperation.
	Something went wrong. Exiting.

#215437: cpu: can not abort at password prompt
	When creating an account using cpu it can prompt for a bad
	password.
	I would like to abort at that point, but that is not possible: 
	both ctrl-c and ctrl-d result in a '  is a bad password: it's 
	WAY too short' message and another password prompt. The only way 
	out is to kill cpu from another shell.

The credit for these reports goes to Wichert Akkerman.

Thanks for your attention, and for your work on cpu!

Bye,

Guido

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Guido Trotter
Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.cs.unibo.it/~trotter/