Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124510
Installation broken if local user 'amanda' already exists
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: The amanda rpm uses a fairly common womans name as it's user account. On my system the user 'amanda' already existed when I installed the rpm's. The rpm's installed, didn't overwrite the 'real' user, but instead chown'd a bunch of files to the wrong uid. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): amanda-2.4.4p2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. useradd amanda 2. up2date amanda amanda-server amanda-client 3. profit Expected Results: perhaps following the debian route of using 'backup' or something similar? Additional info:
This took me about 2 minutes to fix after download the src rpm. Any reason this is taking so long to even get a response?
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
I still haven't come up with a clean way to handle upgrades. Moving this to rawhide so it won't get lost.
This is fixed in amanda-2.5.2p1-9.fc9. I wrote RPM scriptlets which should help with transition for common configurations.