I see it's already been reported... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963920 On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 09:36 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Ok... (Before anyone tells me I need to) I will be filing a bugzilla > report on this later today but someone did a bad thing in ClamAV. > > If you install the latest packages from the update repositories, they > url chunks unable to create the clamupdate user and group. Problem > appears to be in the clamav-update package. > > During the yum install of the clamav packages... > > -- > groupadd [options] GROUP > > Options: > -f, --force exit successfully if the group already exists, > and cancel -g if the GID is already used > -g, --gid GID use GID for the new group > -h, --help display this help message and exit > -K, --key KEY=VALUE override /etc/login.defs defaults > -o, --non-unique allow to create groups with duplicate > (non-unique) GID > -p, --password PASSWORD use this encrypted password for the new group > -r, --system create a system account > -R, --root CHROOT_DIR directory to chroot into > > useradd: group 'clamupdate' does not exist > warning: user clamupdate does not exist - using root > warning: group clamupdate does not exist - using root > > Installing: clamav-filesystem ################### [1522/2490] > Installing: clamav-update ################### [1523/2490]/usr/bin/chown: invalid group: ‘root:clamupdate’ > No such file or directory > warning: %post(clamav-update-0.97.8-1.fc18.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 > > -- > > I've had to add that user and group by hand on some of my real systems > but that's not possible in building the NST (Network Security Toolkit) > <http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html> respins of F18 > since those are building bootable iso images. > > Obviously, it only affects fresh installs where someone installs ClamAV > on a new system (or, at least, one that hasn't had it on there before). > If the UID and GID already exist on the system, there's not a problem. > > Regards, > Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
