tags 493988 patch thanks Hi,
attached you find a simple patch which will modify rancid-core.postinst to call adduser only when the rancid user does not exist (that won't change the UID/GID to a system-one, but should still work fine). regards Evgeni
diff -u rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/changelog rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/changelog
--- rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/changelog
+++ rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+rancid (2.3.2~a8-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * debian/rancid-core.postinst:
+ + Only try to add the rancid user when he does not exist.
+ Closes: #493988
+
+ -- Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:25:02 +0100
+
rancid (2.3.2~a8-3) unstable; urgency=low
* 06_tmp_security.dpatch: remove temporary directory recursively. This
diff -u rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/rancid-core.postinst rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/rancid-core.postinst
--- rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/rancid-core.postinst
+++ rancid-2.3.2~a8/debian/rancid-core.postinst
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
db_get "rancid/warning" || true
db_get "rancid/go_on" && true
[ "$RET" = "false" ] && exit 0
- adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/rancid --quiet rancid
+ if ! `getent passwd rancid >/dev/null`; then
+ adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/rancid --quiet rancid
+ fi
if [ -d /var/log/rancid ]; then
chown rancid:rancid /var/log/rancid
fi
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