Bug 851482 - Installation does not create user ids needed for package
Summary: Installation does not create user ids needed for package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Packaging Toolset Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-24 09:50 UTC by Štefan Gurský
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 08:04:34 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Štefan Gurský 2012-08-24 09:50:13 UTC
Description of problem:

When installing package like polipo, privoxy, tor and some similar packages do not create user ids for that software and I get errors such as:

warning: user polipo does not exist - using root
warning: group polipo does not exist - using root
/bin/chown: neplatný používateľ: `polipo:polipo'

(the last part is locale for invalid user) 
or

warning: user privoxy does not exist - using root
warning: group privoxy does not exist - using root

or

warning: group toranon does not exist - using root
warning: user toranon does not exist - using root



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name        : yum
Version     : 3.4.3
Release     : 28.fc17



Steps to Reproduce:
1. use yum install to install package that needs addin user

  
Actual results:
error message about nonexisting user

Expected results:
user created and no error message

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