Bug 759919

Summary: Unsure whether bug: Group 77 changes name from "pcap" to "arpwatch" if arpwatch installed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: David Tonhofer <bughunt>
Component: arpwatchAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Description David Tonhofer 2011-12-04 21:27:00 UTC
Description of problem:
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----> At first, group 77 is named "pcap":

# grep pcap /etc/group
pcap:x:77:

# grep arpwatch /etc/group
<nothing>

----> Install arpwatch:

# yum install arpwatch

----> Group name changed:

# grep pcap /etc/group
<nothing>

# grep arpwatch /etc/group
arpwatch:x:77:

# grep arpwatch /etc/passwd
arpwatch:x:77:77::/var/lib/arpwatch:/sbin/nologin

# grep pcap /etc/passwd
<nothing>

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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arpwatch-2.1a15-14.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
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Didn't try

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2011-12-05 08:48:09 UTC
The user and group pcap was used by package tcpdump which originally included libpcap and arpwatch. That package was split and the user pcap is now arpwatch and tcpdump has a new user/group with id 72.