Package: ntpsec
Version: 1.2.2+dfsg1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Every time the ntpsec package upgrades it attempts to unconditionally
add the ntpsec user and group as per the following postinst snippet.
addgroup --system --quiet ntpsec
adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntpsec \
--no-create-home --home /nonexistent ntpsec
This logs errors because the user and group already exists. Here is a
sample from the most recent update.
Dec 12 11:49:47 clash addgroup[4100]: The group `ntpsec' already exists as
a system group. Exiting.
Dec 12 11:49:47 clash adduser[4113]: The home dir /nonexistent you
specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory
Dec 12 11:49:47 clash adduser[4113]: The system user `ntpsec' already
exists. Exiting.
Please test for the existence of those groups before creating them as
other packages such as apt and others do. Adding the following "if"
and "getent" checking fixes this using the same method the apt package
and others do.
if ! getent passwd ntpsec > /dev/null; then
addgroup --system --quiet ntpsec
fi
if ! getent group ntpsec > /dev/null; then
adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntpsec \
--no-create-home --home /nonexistent ntpsec
fi
Thank you for maintaining ntpsec in Debian.
Bob
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages ntpsec depends on:
ii adduser 3.137
ii init-system-helpers 1.66
ii libbsd0 0.11.7-4
ii libc6 2.37-13
ii libcap2 1:2.66-4
ii libssl3 3.1.4-2
ii netbase 6.4
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-ntp 1.2.2+dfsg1-3
ii tzdata 2023c-11
Versions of packages ntpsec recommends:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-181
Versions of packages ntpsec suggests:
pn apparmor <none>
pn certbot <none>
pn ntpsec-doc <none>
pn ntpsec-ntpviz <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
