User-Agent: w3m/0.5.2+cvs-1.1039 When trying to set up monkeysphere, it fails with an error: [silbe@bs-f14-i386 ~]$ sudo monkeysphere-authentication add-identity-certifier 691BE3B4E1F06FCAF855B0F0E3F7D14E34440BEC ms: setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core... This account is currently not available. [silbe@bs-f14-i386 ~]$ Monkeysphere uses "su monkeysphere -c <command>" (see su_monkeysphere_user() in /usr/share/monkeysphere/common). This fails because the user "monkeysphere" has been created with /sbin/nologin as shell: [silbe@bs-f14-i386 ~]$ grep monkeysphere /etc/passwd monkeysphere:x:498:497:Monkeysphere authentication user:/var/lib/monkeysphere:/sbin/nologin One option would be to set /bin/sh as shell. Another would be to replace the use of "su" with "sudo". The latter doesn't use the login shell: [root@bs-f14-i386 ~]# sudo -u monkeysphere echo foo foo [root@bs-f14-i386 ~]# Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo monkeysphere-authentication add-identity-certifier 691BE3B4E1F06FCAF855B0F0E3F7D14E34440BEC Actual Results: ms: setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core... This account is currently not available. Expected Results: Add 691BE3B4E1F06FCAF855B0F0E3F7D14E34440BEC as an identity verifier.
I'm seeing this as well... I changed the shell to bash to work around this: usermod -s /bin/bash monkeysphere I'm not sure what the long-term security implications are though.
I apologize for not responding earlier. I've not been using Fedora very much lately. If someone would like to take over the maintenance of the monkeysphere package, I'll orphan it in pkgdb.
I have just taken over this package from orphaned state, and will be looking into this bug, and fixing it, soon.
The fix for this bug should be landing in updates-testing soon.
monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16
monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc17
Package monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-10773/monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
monkeysphere-0.35-5.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.