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Subject: RE: Problem with ssh-host-config?
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Hi Corinna,

>> In theory this should only happen if you *only* use passwd in
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf.  If you use default settings (passwd db), this
>> branch should not be hit either.
>>
>> So I wonder how your /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like.  Are you using 
>>
>>  passwd: passwd
>>  group: passwd
>
> We install the following in nsswitch.conf just before running ssh-host-config:
>
> passwd:   files
> group:    files 
> db_home:  windows
>
> Does that explain the path we're taking?

Looking at the csih scripts, that would take the code into the mkpasswd branch with the bug.
So perhaps no one has noticed this before simply because the default behaviour skips it.

-- 
Cheers,
-nick




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