Yes, I had the adduser binary.

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 1:16:07 PM UTC-4, Santiago Bassett wrote:
>
> Do you have adduser binary? Try running it manually. I need to add it as a 
> package dependency, as it seems not every Debian/Ubuntu has it.
>
> If you don't try installing it and then reinstall OSSEC, that should work. 
>
> I hope it helps
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Alexandre Laquerre <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> You are installing the installation package with a root like user correct 
>> ?
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 12:30:29 PM UTC-4, Alexandre Laquerre wrote:
>>>
>>> hmm after a bit of searching, i found the following details in a 
>>> previous post from April
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ossec-list/HFKG8wxO8Ow
>>>
>>> The suggestion in that post was to create a user in order to solve the 
>>> issue. It is as if the user is the user ossec is the default user for Ossec 
>>> and without it, it will not install.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 12:09:27 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206422 Nov 12 21:11 
>>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/ossec-hids-agent_2.8.3-3trusty_amd64.deb
>>>>
>>>> Also, if it matters, I did the apt-get as root.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 11:58:31 AM UTC-4, Alexandre Laquerre wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> when you do a ls -la on the installation file what permissions do you 
>>>>> see ?
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 11:55:37 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am attempting to install the package ossec-hids-agent onto Ubuntu 
>>>>>> 14.04.4.
>>>>>> I am using the source, deb http://ossec.wazuh.com/repos/apt/ubuntu 
>>>>>> trusty main
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While installing it is kicking the error 
>>>>>>      Setting up ossec-hids-agent (2.8.3-3trusty) ...
>>>>>>      chown: invalid user: ‘ossec:ossec’
>>>>>>      dpkg: error processing package ossec-hids-agent (--configure):
>>>>>>       subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 
>>>>>> exit status 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I look at /etc/passwd I do not see an entry for ossec; and I 
>>>>>> could not find any documentation stating I needed to create one when 
>>>>>> dealing with the repository.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am I missing something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for any help
>>>>>>
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