FS#27587 - [openntpd] does not create ntp user during system install

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Leo Bärring (tlvb) - Thursday, 15 December 2011, 16:45 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 17 November 2012, 19:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I selected openntpd to be installed when doing an
archlinux install (netinstall), appending @openntpd
to the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf.

Upon the first boot after the install, I got a
message just before the login prompt that openntpd
could not start because the ntp user and group
was not present.

Logging in and un+in-stalling it again created
the user and group.

I have not checked if it is a problem on 32 bit systems

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The archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-x86_64.iso from
ds.hj.se (http access) was used.

The only manually selected packages (during the install
process) was openntpd and openssh.
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Saturday, 17 November 2012, 19:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  The bug occurs when you have ntp and openntpd installed and remove one. So now we let openntpd conflict with ntp
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Friday, 16 December 2011, 10:48 GMT
looking at openntpd.install, it looks like there is code in place that tries to add an ntp user:

post_install() {
if [ ! "`grep ^ntp /etc/group`" ]; then
echo "adding new group: ntp"
/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 87 ntp
fi

if [ ! "`grep ^ntp /etc/passwd`" ]; then
echo "adding new user: ntp"
/usr/sbin/useradd -g ntp -u 87 -d /var/empty -s /bin/false -c 'Network Time Protocol' ntp
fi
}

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