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Description of problem:
Please fix user/group creation in your spec file[1]. There were problems when
(UID != GID) && (UID<200) [2]. For example:
tryitd:x:194:482:TryIt:/:/sbin/nologin
Problem was caused by change/fix of shadow-utis behaviour. useradd does not
create group with same GID as user's UID for IDs < 200 (static/reserved) unless
it's done this way:
getent group qemu >/dev/null || groupadd -g 107 -r qemu
getent passwd qemu >/dev/null || \
useradd -r -u 107 -g qemu -G kvm -d / -s /sbin/nologin \
-c "qemu user" qemu
This issue should be fixed as soon as possible. Note, it can't be resolved by
any update once we have RHEL6 GA. Please fix it in Fedora too. thnx.
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[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593683
* Mon Jun 07 2010 Richard Hughes <rhughes> - 0.5.14-4
- Create a haldaemon group in the spec file as shadow-utils has been updated
and no longer automatically creates a private group for UIDs < 200.
- Resolves: #594305
Comment 4Dennis Gregorovic
2010-06-08 19:35:40 UTC
This error is now showing up in anaconda's buildinstall process:
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package hal-0.5.14-4.el6.i686
useradd: group 'kvm' does not exist
error: %pre(hal-0.5.14-4.el6.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 6
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hal-0.5.14-4.el6
This error is blocking the nightlies. I will untag hal-0.5.14-4.el6 for now.
(In reply to comment #4)
> Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package hal-0.5.14-4.el6.i686
>
> useradd: group 'kvm' does not exist
> error: %pre(hal-0.5.14-4.el6.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 6
> error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hal-0.5.14-4.el6
Sincere apologies. This was a classic copy-and-paste mistake from your example. I'm building a new package now [http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2504915]. Thanks.
Verified on hal-0.5.14-6.el6 (clean install of 20100620)
haldaemon group is being created during installation of hal, as shadow-utils is no longer creating automatically groups for UID < 200
$ grep hal_user_uid hal.spec
%define hal_user_uid 68
getent group haldaemon >/dev/null || groupadd -g %{hal_user_uid} -r haldaemon
useradd -r -u %{hal_user_uid} -g haldaemon -G haldaemon -d '/' -s /sbin/nologin \
# grep 68 /etc/group
haldaemon:x:68:haldaemon
Comment 9releng-rhel@redhat.com
2010-11-10 20:38:14 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
Description of problem: Please fix user/group creation in your spec file[1]. There were problems when (UID != GID) && (UID<200) [2]. For example: tryitd:x:194:482:TryIt:/:/sbin/nologin Problem was caused by change/fix of shadow-utis behaviour. useradd does not create group with same GID as user's UID for IDs < 200 (static/reserved) unless it's done this way: getent group qemu >/dev/null || groupadd -g 107 -r qemu getent passwd qemu >/dev/null || \ useradd -r -u 107 -g qemu -G kvm -d / -s /sbin/nologin \ -c "qemu user" qemu This issue should be fixed as soon as possible. Note, it can't be resolved by any update once we have RHEL6 GA. Please fix it in Fedora too. thnx. -------- [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593683