Package: vsftpd
Version: 2.0.5-2
Severity: normal
While installing vsftpd in NFS environment reports:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vsftpd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 114kB of archives.
After unpacking 418kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb unstable/main vsftpd 2.0.5-2 [114kB]
Fetched 114kB in 2s (52.5kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package vsftpd.
(Reading database ... 232828 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vsftpd (from .../vsftpd_2.0.5-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up vsftpd (2.0.5-2) ...
Adding system user `ftp' (UID 119) ...
Adding new user `ftp' (UID 119) with group `nogroup' ...
Not creating home directory `/home/ftp'.
install: cannot create directory `/home/ftp': Permission denied
dpkg: error processing vsftpd (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
vsftpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The /home is not automatically writable.
SUGGESTION
program could notice this installation problem and suggest:
"Default install failed. Please run: vsftpd-config DESTDIR"
where separate program vsftpd-config would take care of installing the
needed things to a deesignated directory. (like /srv/ftp).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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