[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pkgstats 2.1-1

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:52:07 +0200, Gaetan Bisson
<bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
> [2010-09-13 15:43:33 +0200] Thomas Bächler:
>> Am 13.09.2010 13:18, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
>> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:16:53 +0200, Thomas Bächler
>> > <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> Am 13.09.2010 13:05, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
>> >>> * the cron is run as nobody and not root (anyone knows how to do this
>> >>> without sudo? no, su does not work it seems)
>> >>
>> >> $ su -c "/usr/bin/pkgstats" nobody
>> >> I use this everywhere, and it works.
>> >
>> > Doesn't work here (tested on several systems). It always asks me to
>> > change the password for the user nobody.
>>
>> Yes, the user needs to be able to log in (nobody has an invalid shell by
>> default iirc).
> 
> This can be overriden by "su -s /bin/sh nobody"; the issue here is that
> the third field of nobody's entry in /etc/shadow (which indicates when
> the password was last changed) is set to "0" (any positive value would
> work).

Interesting. I wonder if that is a bug in our default shadow file or
some weired feature. Shouldn't this just be empty to disable password
aging? See man 5 shadow

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre