Debian Bug report logs - #502150
adduser: EXTRA_GROUPS example should *not* contain group "games"

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Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: adduser: EXTRA_GROUPS example should *not* contain group "games"

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:37:03 -0700

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: normal

Back in April 2007, someone filed bug 419572 (still open) saying that
powermanga didn't save high scores.  Someone else suggested the
"workaround" of adding the user to group "games"; however, normal
users should never have group "games", because that group exists
specifically so that games can write data that normal users cannot
tamper with.  Bug 419572 then got cloned as 435642 against adduser
asking for the commented EXTRA_GROUPS example to include group
"games", and adduser made that change.

That change should never have occurred.  Please remove group "games"
from the EXTRA_GROUPS example.

As previously suggested in bug 432710, the EXTRA_GROUPS example should
match the groups debian-installer adds the first user to.  (Even after
removing group "games", that doesn't hold true, but that represents a
different bug.)

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-rc9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.1.1-5  change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-16  minimal Perl system

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl        1.05-4     Using libc functions for internati
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-16  Core Perl modules

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true

Message #10 received at 502150-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 502150-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#502150: fixed in adduser 3.111

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:19:17 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.111

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.111.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.dsc
adduser_3.111.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.tar.gz
adduser_3.111_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 502150@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:09:53 +0100
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.111
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 502150 515909 515909 517505 520586 535857 544504 545024 545475
Changes: 
 adduser (3.111) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * deluser: --backup-to implies --backup; thanks Zak Wilcox (closes: #535857)
   * deluser: sockets should also be backupped and removed (closes: #545024),
     thanks Christian Sievers for spotting.
   * allow underscores again in usernames (closes: #520586)
   * remove the "games" group from the EXTRA_GROUPS example (closes: #502150)
   * really warn if a user is already present when creating a new system user
     (closes: 515909)
   * document the interaction between --system and --close (closes: #515909)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Update po4a calls
   * Translations:
     - fr (thanks Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
       closes: #545475)
     - sv (thanks Daniel Nylander <yeager@ubuntu.com> closes: #517505)
     - zh_CN (thanks Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> closes: #544504)
   * update standards version - no changes
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