Bug 752885

Summary:	Home directories for system accounts adm, uucp and gopher do not exist
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	DaveG <daveg>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ovasik, pknirsch
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Description DaveG 2011-11-10 17:52:09 UTC

Description of problem:
The default /etc/passwd includes accounts 'adm', 'uucp' and 'gopher' with home directories that are not included in the package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setup-2.8.28-2.fc14.noarch
(Still in git HEAD)

How reproducible:
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# uname -r
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2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64
# pwck⏎
user 'adm': directory '/var/adm' does not exist

user 'uucp': directory '/var/spool/uucp' does not exist

user 'gopher': directory '/var/gopher' does not exist

pwck: no changes


# yum whatprovides '/var/adm'⏎
No Matches found


# yum whatprovides '/var/spool/uucp'⏎
uucp-1.07-23.fc14.x86_64 : A set of utilities for operations between systems

Repo        : fedora

Matched from:

Filename    : /var/spool/uucp


# yum whatprovides '/var/gopher'⏎
No Matches found

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Additional info:
Please consider including the various home directories in the base installation package set (filesystem?) or move user account creation to the relevant service packages. Just trying to reduce the background noise from system integrity checks.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2011-11-10 20:57:50 UTC

Thanks for the report, I'll check these accounts and the reasons why they should be created by default. If this is really necessary, than filesystem package should create these dirs...

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2011-11-11 15:55:39 UTC

Directories for system accounts from setup now owned and created by filesystem package ( /var/spool/uucp directory ownership dropped from uucp package , homedir in /usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid file for gopher changed to /var/gopher to match with /etc/passwd) . Fixed in setup-2.8.43-1.fc17 , closing Rawhide.