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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once the dust has settled on the implementation, I think we want to look
at whether this is SRUable to vivid for use in core and phone there.

** Also affects: adduser (Ubuntu Vivid)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  adduser should support managing additional password/shadow/group files
  from libnss-extrausers

Status in adduser package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in adduser source package in Vivid:
  New
Status in adduser package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  with our readonly system-image setup when adding a user or changing a password using the /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} is not actually possible. 
  we plan to solve this via using libnss-extrausers and patching the config in /etc/nsswitch.conf at image build-time. this way we can make /var/lib/extrausers writable and use passwd,shadow and group from there.

  unfortunately adduser is not able to operate on these files in the
  non-standard location. to set a user password (for having a properly
  working lock screen), add new users or drop the "nopasswordlogin"
  group from the phablet user it needs to learn handling these files so
  that we do not need to use weird hacks to manage users on system-image
  installs.

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