[scponly] [Fwd: Bug#228920: scponly: setup_chroot.sh fails on existing users]

[Thomas Wana]

Hi,

The attached mail showed up in the bug database for the scponly package 
regarding
the setup_chroot.sh script. It's not about bugs in the process of 
creating a functional
chroot environment (this now works fine at least for the Debian 
package), it's
about its overall behavior in respect to usability.

I think the issues pointed out by Charles Fry (the submitter of the bug) 
are all
justified and we should work on doing the necessary changes (particularly
because I think they are one- or two-liners here and there).

I wanted to coordinate with the upstream-authors (you) first, because an 
overall
scponly patch would be better than a Debian-only-patch.

Since we already started to use kind of a distribution-abstraction-layer for
setup_chroot.sh (the build_extras/arch directory), I suggest we add more 
scripts
there for each distribution to solve the following tasks:

1.) check if a user exists - return appropriate exit code to the main script
2.) get a user's home directory if he exists - return on stdout
3.) add a user - return exit code to the main script
4.) perhaps some more I forgot

Finally, these scripts should be called from setup_chroot.sh at the right
places.

Please see this as a request-for-discussion.

Tom
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