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Bug 124831
| Summary: | group mailman does not exist - using root | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jens Petersen <petersen> |
| Component: | mailman | Assignee: | John Dennis <jdennis> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | dwalsh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:03:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Jens Petersen
2004-05-31 00:31:31 UTC
I wonder if this is somehow related to selinux, since several people on #fedora-devel told me that they can't reproduce this... Was that a typo? Did you mean they can reproduce it? I've heard reports of this before and I believe with other packages besides mailman that depend on specific system user accounts. Since the rpm in each instance does in fact create the user my assumption is also this is an selinux issue. I'm adding Dan Walsh to the cc list, hopefully Dan can shed some light on whether selinux will prevent rpm from creating system user accounts. In the meantime I managed to accidently delete the installation where I was experiencing this problem. )-: As I recall it was failing on the groupadd command in %pre. Btw I installed the policy pkg on the machine to get rid of the missing selinux files warnings when installing rpm packages... To comment 2 - no, no typo: they could reproduce they said. Presumably they're not running selinux though. Forgot to mention in comment 3, that installing the policy pkg put my machine in permissive mode afaict after the next reboot. (If this is the case, it doesn't seem very nice behaviour to me.) Ugh: that should read "they could *not* reproduce". Sorry for the confusion. I can confirm the problem. This happened to me on a freshly installed system with SELinux disabled. For those of you seeing this problem are you using nis to manage your groups? What does the group line in /etc/nsswitch.conf say? What do these commands return? % grep '^mailman:' /etc/group % getent group mailman % getent group 41 I don't use nis fwiw. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125421 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |