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Bug 52091

Summary:	wu-ftpd creates incorrect user
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Chris Ricker 2001-08-20 14:01:38 UTC

I just did a fresh install of RC1, and noticed that the ftp account is
being created with a home directory of /home/ftp.  This should be /var/ftp
to comply with the (brain-dead) standards about shovelling all that crap in
/var.

Furthermore, the home directory created doesn't even exist.  I presume it's
created by the anonftp package, which wasn't installed (should it have
been, as a dep?)

[kaboom@verdande evolution]$ rpm -qa | grep ftp
lftp-2.4.0-1
tftp-0.17-14
ncftp-3.0.3-6
ftp-0.17-12
wu-ftpd-2.6.1-18
[kaboom@verdande evolution]$ grep ftp /etc/passwd
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/home/ftp:/sbin/nologin
[kaboom@verdande evolution]$ ls /home/ftp
ls: /home/ftp: No such file or directory
[kaboom@verdande evolution]$

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-20 14:07:19 UTC

Actually the user isn't created at all - it's in the initial /etc/passwd file 
in the setup package.

Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2001-08-20 14:11:51 UTC

Okay, that would make a little more sense.

While you're fixing stuff with the password file, it also contains

gopher:x:13:30:gopher:/usr/lib/gopher-data:/sbin/nologin

The home for gopher should also be moved to /var to be standards-compliant (I'm
not sure if RH even ships a gopher server any more that might need changing as
well?)

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-20 18:19:00 UTC

anonftp %post changes the home dir, for use on upgrades, FWIW. So any
situation that needs it should be fixed.

(The problem is since passwd/group are all correctly %config(noreplace),
any changes to them must be done twice (once in setup, once in a %pre/%post
somewhere other than setup (putting the scripts on setup causes prereq loops.)))

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-08-20 19:24:44 UTC

This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-20 20:39:55 UTC

Will be changed in 2.5.6-1.