Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 231133
user bitlbee not created
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:58 EST
Description of problem: When switching bitlbee to using bitlbee user, it would be actually useful to create one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bitlbee-1.0.3-5.fc6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.start with fresh install of RHEL5/FC6 2.install bitlbee and enable it in /etc/xinetd.d/bitlbee 3.telnet localhost 6667 Actual results: nothing message in /var/log/messages saying that Mar 6 14:13:25 hubmaier xinetd[2115]: Unknown user: bitlbee [file=/etc/xinetd.d /bitlbee] [line=9] Mar 6 14:13:25 hubmaier xinetd[2115]: Error parsing attribute user - DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/bitlbee] [line=9] Expected results: sensible reply from bitlbee server and no warnings in /var/log/messages Additional info:
And of course, rights on /var/lib/bitlbee were messed up too (it should be IMHO 700 bitlbee:root, not 700 root:bitlbee).
That's *very* strange, because you're the first one reporting this. Can you please execute /usr/sbin/getenforce to ensure, that it's not a SELinux problem? Can you also please copy the output of "rpm -V bitlbee" here into? It looks like your system is messed up, because the correct permissions of /var/lib/ bitlbee would be 700 bitlbee:bitlbee. Finally, can you verify whether /usr/sbin/useradd exists and whether the shadow- utils is not broken ("rpm -V shadow-utils")? I'm guessing the wrong permissions are caused by the errornously not created bitlbee user which IMHO must be the result of a partitially broken package or even system.
This bug report could be related to https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora- devel-list/2007-March/msg00394.html, if no further information are provided.
Robert, this is not correct URL -- the one your provided points to the problems of glibc and fakeroot. How does it relate to this bug? Otherwise, [matej@chelcicky h_office]\$ rpm -V bitlbee S.5....T c /etc/xinetd.d/bitlbee [matej@chelcicky h_office]\$ ssh hubmaier Last login: Thu Mar 8 22:11:17 2007 from adsl2071.in.ipex.cz [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ rpm -V bitlbee S.5....T c /etc/xinetd.d/bitlbee [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ rpm -V shadow balíček shadow není nainstalován [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ man getenforce [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ getenforce Permissive [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ rpm -V shadow-utils ..?..... c /etc/default/useradd S.?..... /usr/sbin/groupadd S.?..... /usr/sbin/groupdel S.?..... /usr/sbin/groupmod S.?..... /usr/sbin/useradd S.?..... /usr/sbin/userdel S.?..... /usr/sbin/usermod [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ uname -a Linux hubmaier 2.6.18-8.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:29:35 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ Let me emphasize that it is x86_64, so it may be slightly weird somewhere.
Hmm...unknown user bitlbee would mean that "/usr/sbin/useradd -r -s /sbin/ nologin -d /var/lib/bitlbee -M -c "BitlBee User" bitlbee" would have been failed. Do you have a bitlbee user for now or what happens at your system when the command gets executed again? I recognized x86_64, but from what I can see currently it doesn't look bitlbee related.
I have created bitlbee user manually of course and now everything works just fine.
I've written https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007-March/ msg00168.html to search for maybe other reproducers in the Fedora world. The people I know using bitlbee at ix86, x86_64 or ppc didn't have this problem.
Attempted, FC6, cannot reproduce. SELinux is permissive, it that helps.
What does /var/log/secure say about the attempt at running useradd to create the bitlbee user? There should be a log entry for the time the rpm was installed.
Michael, [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ sudo grep bitlbee /var/log/secure* /var/log/secure:Mar 12 13:57:08 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/grep bitlbee /var/log/secure /var/log/secure.1 /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 13:15:23 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/yum install bitlbee /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:24:20 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/lib ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod g+w bitlbee/ /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:24:29 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/lib ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod g+wx bitlbee/ /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:24:37 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/lib ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod g+rwx bitlbee/ /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:30:56 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=bitlbee ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/bitlbee /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:31:26 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=bitlbee ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/bitlbee --help /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:31:42 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=bitlbee ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/bitlbee -v -n /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:33:57 hubmaier useradd[2547]: new group: name=bitlbee, GID=106 /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:33:57 hubmaier useradd[2547]: new user: name=bitlbee, UID=100, GID=106, home=/usr/sbin/, shell=/sbin/nologin /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:34:53 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/matej ; USER=bitlbee ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/bitlbee -v -n /var/log/secure.1:Mar 6 14:35:43 hubmaier sudo: matej : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/var/lib ; USER=bitlbee ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/bitlbee -v -n [matej@hubmaier ~]\$ which means that the only creation of bitlbee user was done by me by hand.
As far as I can see, nobody is able to reproduce this problem including myself; one possible cause is https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007- March/msg00171.html, but I'm likely to close this bug report (unfortunately not with a real fix).
I don't think there was pre-existing bitlbee group -- this was really fresh install of new system. However, as I cannot reproduce it, let it be WORKSFORME.