Bug 160643 - pcap user is not added while installing tcpdump/arpwatch
Summary: pcap user is not added while installing tcpdump/arpwatch
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tcpdump
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-16 09:24 UTC by Kirill Kolyshkin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-21 09:22:45 UTC
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patch to tcpdump.spec adding prereq: /usr/sbin/{user,group}add to tcpdump and arpwatch (681 bytes, patch)
2005-06-16 09:24 UTC, Kirill Kolyshkin
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Description Kirill Kolyshkin 2005-06-16 09:24:58 UTC
Description of problem:

tcpdump and arpwatch tries to create user and group 'pcap' with UID/GID of 77 in
preinstall script, using /usr/sbin/useradd and /usr/sbin/groupadd.

In some situations it fails because useradd/groupadd binaries (from shadow-utils
rpm) is not yet installed. Proper fix would be to add
Prereq: /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/groupadd
to appropriate places of tcpdump.spec

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcpdump-3.8.2-12


How reproducible:
Use yum to install tcpdump in a clean chroot environment. Say,

mkdir chrooted
yum --installroot chrooted tcpdump

Yum will pick up all dependencies correctly (including shadow-utils which is
required by some other rpm) and install everything. The problem is installation
order is not correct and tcpdump gets installed before shadow-utils.

I have checked that adding prereq for useradd and groupadd fixes the problem.
Patch to tcpdump.spec is attached.

Comment 1 Kirill Kolyshkin 2005-06-16 09:24:58 UTC
Created attachment 115528 [details]
patch to tcpdump.spec adding prereq: /usr/sbin/{user,group}add to tcpdump and arpwatch


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