On 8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I noted recently that the user "system" seems to have vanished.
> >
> > > Likewise the user and the group SYSTEM no longer seem to exist.
> >
> > .... as evidenced by:
> >
> > $ chown system xxx
> > chown: `system': invalid user
>
> That's the problem. I don't know how it disappeared from your /etc/passwd,
> but `mkpasswd -l' always creates an entry for the user system. Just readd
> it.
Ah, thanks Corinna. My post-install script does a:
mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
I'll change it to add the mkpasswd -l output as well.
And all the above comments apply to mkgroup, too.
luke
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