Bug 58346 – tcpdump.spec creates pcap user with nonexistant shell

Bug 58346 - tcpdump.spec creates pcap user with nonexistant shell

Summary:	tcpdump.spec creates pcap user with nonexistant shell

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	tcpdump (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Harald Hoyer
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Duplicates:	54225 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-01-14 14:05 EST by Blair Zajac
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-01-15 05:35:23 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2001:089	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	: Updated tcpdump packages available for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.x	2001-06-28 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Blair Zajac 2002-01-14 14:05:47 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

Description of problem:
The spec file for tcpdump-3.6.2-9.src.rpm creates the pcap user with this command:

/usr/sbin/useradd -u %{PCAP_UID} -g %{PCAP_GID} \
        -s /bin/nologin -M -r -d %{_vararpwatch} pcap 2> /dev/null || :

the shell /bin/nologin does not exist, it exists at /sbin/nologin


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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2002-01-15 05:28:57 EST

*** Bug 54225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2002-01-17 10:27:18 EST

should be fixed in 3.6.2-10 or newer

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