newusers man page more informative userdel should not need to run semanage

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Peter Vrabec 2010-04-28 13:20:43 +00:00
parent 5b0d7ef0e5
commit f925435816
3 changed files with 64 additions and 1 deletions

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diff -up shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.infoParentDir shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8
--- shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.infoParentDir 2010-04-28 13:44:04.634870854 +0200
+++ shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8 2010-04-28 13:46:07.190866220 +0200
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ This field is copied in the GECOS field
.RS 4
This field is used to define the home directory of the user\&.
.sp
-If this field does not specify an existing directory, the specified directory is created, with ownership set to the user being created or updated and its primary group\&.
+If this field does not specify an existing directory, the specified directory is created, with ownership set to the user being created or updated and its primary group\&.Note that newusers does not create parent directories of the new user's home directory. The newusers command will fail to create the home directory if the parent directories do not exist, and will send a message to stderr informing the user of the failure. The newusers command will not halt or return a failure to the calling shell if it fails to create the home directory, it will continue to process the batch of new users specified\&.
.sp
If the home directory of an existing user is changed,
\fBnewusers\fR
diff -up shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.xml.infoParentDir shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.xml
--- shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.xml.infoParentDir 2010-04-28 13:48:01.419238133 +0200
+++ shadow-4.1.4.2/man/newusers.8.xml 2010-04-28 13:55:40.499663030 +0200
@@ -192,7 +192,15 @@
<para>
If this field does not specify an existing directory, the
specified directory is created, with ownership set to the
- user being created or updated and its primary group.
+ user being created or updated and its primary group. Note
+ that newusers does not create parent directories of the new
+ user's home directory. The newusers command will fail to
+ create the home directory if the parent directories do not
+ exist, and will send a message to stderr informing the user
+ of the failure. The newusers command will not halt or return
+ a failure to the calling shell if it fails to create the home
+ directory, it will continue to process the batch of new users
+ specified.
</para>
<para>
If the home directory of an existing user is changed,

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diff -up shadow-4.1.4.2/src/userdel.c.semanage shadow-4.1.4.2/src/userdel.c
--- shadow-4.1.4.2/src/userdel.c.semanage 2010-04-28 14:47:25.581366330 +0200
+++ shadow-4.1.4.2/src/userdel.c 2010-04-28 14:48:08.736376028 +0200
@@ -974,18 +974,6 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
}
#endif
-#ifdef WITH_SELINUX
- if (is_selinux_enabled () > 0) {
- const char *args[5];
- args[0] = "/usr/sbin/semanage";
- args[1] = "login";
- args[2] = "-d";
- args[3] = user_name;
- args[4] = NULL;
- safe_system (args[0], args, NULL, 1);
- }
-#endif
-
/*
* Cancel any crontabs or at jobs. Have to do this before we remove
* the entry from /etc/passwd.

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Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
Name: shadow-utils
Version: 4.1.4.2
Release: 4%{?dist}
Release: 5%{?dist}
Epoch: 2
URL: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/
Source0: ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-%{version}.tar.bz2
@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Patch0: shadow-4.1.4.2-redhat.patch
Patch1: shadow-4.1.4.1-goodname.patch
Patch2: shadow-4.1.4.2-leak.patch
Patch3: shadow-4.1.4.2-fixes.patch
Patch4: shadow-4.1.4.2-infoParentDir.patch
Patch5: shadow-4.1.4.2-semange.patch
License: BSD and GPLv2+
Group: System Environment/Base
BuildRequires: libselinux-devel >= 1.25.2-1
@ -39,6 +41,8 @@ are used for managing group accounts.
%patch1 -p1 -b .goodname
%patch2 -p1 -b .leak
%patch3 -p1 -b .fixes
%patch4 -p1 -b .infoParentDir
%patch5 -p1 -b .semange
iconv -f ISO88591 -t utf-8 doc/HOWTO > doc/HOWTO.utf8
cp -f doc/HOWTO.utf8 doc/HOWTO
@ -181,6 +185,11 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{_mandir}/man8/vigr.8*
%changelog
* Wed Apr 28 2010 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 2:4.1.4.2-5
- newusers man page more informative
- userdel should not need to run semanage
Resolves: #586330 #586408
* Thu Apr 01 2010 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 2:4.1.4.2-4
- fix man directories ownership (#569418)