Ubuntu
adduser package

adduser fails if /etc/skel contains symlink starting with a dot

Bug #31553 reported by Sascha Silbe
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
adduser (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Matthias Klose

Bug Description

If /etc/skel contains a SymLink starting with a dot, adduser fails:

root@caravan:~# ln -s /etc/syslog.conf /etc/skel/.foo
root@caravan:~# adduser test
Adding user `test'...
Adding new user `test' (1000) with group `users'.
Creating home directory `/home/test'.
Copying files from `/etc/skel'
symlink: Bad file descriptor
Cleaning up.
Removing directory `/home/test'
Removing user `test'.
root@caravan:~#

On Debian, this works fine.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? What version of the adduser package of both distributions? Ubuntu doesn't change that package so there is no reason to have it working on Debian and not Ubuntu

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Sascha Silbe (sascha-ubuntu-launchpad) wrote :

I'm using Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger). adduser in Ubuntu is 3.64ubuntu1. For Debian it's the one in sarge. Can't tell the exact version since I had a friend test it for me.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

not seen with 4.80ubuntu1 in dapper

Changed in adduser:
assignee: nobody → doko
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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