Public bug reported:
I work in an enterprise environment where usernames are decided
centrally. A user has been given the user name 'ntp'. I need to be able
to tell the ntp package to use a different username, but the install
script assumes that the ntp:ntp user/group is available and valid.
At a minimum, this code needs to accept a configured username variable
instead of hard-coding ntp.
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
addgroup --system --quiet ntp
adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home ntp
chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp /var/log/ntpstats
fi
Additional requested information:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System ->
About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or
by checking in Software Center
apt-cache policy ntp
ntp:
Installed: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.13
Candidate: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.13
Version table:
*** 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.13 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
3) What you expected to happen
I expected the package to install
4) What happened instead
Installation fails because the user 'ntp' already exists.
Setting up ntp (1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.13) ...
adduser: The user `ntp' already exists. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package ntp (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ntp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Install fails when 'ntp' user already exists
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