Bug 909665 - 'This account is currently not available.' error when running /etc/cron.daily/slrnpull-expire
Summary: 'This account is currently not available.' error when running /etc/cron.daily...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 909661
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: slrn
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Pisar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-10 09:23 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-11 10:33:39 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
suggested patch (284 bytes, patch)
2013-02-10 09:24 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details | Diff

Description Matěj Cepl 2013-02-10 09:23:31 UTC
Description of problem:

wycliff:spool# sh -x /etc/cron.daily/slrnpull-expire 
+ umask 022
+ '[' -d /var/spool/slrnpull ']'
+ exec runuser news -c 'slrnpull --expire'
This account is currently not available.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
slrn-1.0.0-0.1.pre1.0.0.41.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual results:
The error message and slrnpull --expire is acutally not run

Expected results:
automagically expired directories

Additional info:
The problem is obviously in the status of the news user:

matej@wycliff: ~$ grep news /etc/passwd
news:x:990:983:News server user:/etc/news:/sbin/nologin
matej@wycliff: ~$ 

news user has (as it should) /sbin/nologin as its login shell, which runuser doesn't like. Suggested patch attached.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2013-02-10 09:24:45 UTC
Created attachment 695690 [details]
suggested patch

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2013-02-11 10:33:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 909661 ***


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