Debian Bug report logs - #239665
bind9: easier way to check account presence

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <maintonly@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bind9: easier way to check account presence

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:59:18 +0100

Package: bind9
Version: 1:9.2.3-3
Severity: minor

postinst says:
|    chgrp bind /var/run/bind9.$$ >/dev/null 2>&1 || addgroup --system bind
|    chown bind /var/run/bind9.$$ >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
|        adduser --system --home /var/cache/bind --no-create-home \
|                --disabled-password --ingroup bind bind

There is an easier way:
- When adding a system user, adduser doesn't return an error value if
  account already exists as a system account. This is documented
  behavior. Hence, you can just call adduser ---system without fear.
- This behavior will also hold for addgroup --system in the near future.

Greetings
Marc

			    

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux torres 2.4.21-ipsec #1 Sat Jul 5 11:02:08 UTC 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Message #10 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

To: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>, 239665-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <maintonly@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#239665: bind9: easier way to check account presence

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:42:52 -0700

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:59:18PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> There is an easier way:
> - When adding a system user, adduser doesn't return an error value if
>   account already exists as a system account. This is documented
>   behavior. Hence, you can just call adduser ---system without fear.
> - This behavior will also hold for addgroup --system in the near future.

The easier way requires that I depend on a newer version of adduser, yes?
What version?

lamont

Message #20 received at 239665-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>

To: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

Cc: 239665-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#239665: bind9: easier way to check account presence

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:29:51 +0100

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:42:52PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:59:18PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > There is an easier way:
> > - When adding a system user, adduser doesn't return an error value if
> >   account already exists as a system account. This is documented
> >   behavior. Hence, you can just call adduser ---system without fear.
> > - This behavior will also hold for addgroup --system in the near future.
> 
> The easier way requires that I depend on a newer version of adduser, yes?
> What version?

adduser (3.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added explaination to adduser.8 that if invoked with --system and
    the given parameters match with the password file, adduser exists
    silently. Closes: #81300.

 -- Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:54:54 -0600

The same behavior for groups is not yet in adduser (see #239238).
However, you can try to sg $GROUP -c true - if this fails, the group
doesn't exist. This will eliminate the need for the test file.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #25 received at 239665-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

To: 239665-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#239665: fixed in bind9 1:9.3.2-P1-1

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:02:13 -0700

Source: bind9
Source-Version: 1:9.3.2-P1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bind9, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bind9-doc_9.3.2-P1-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9-doc_9.3.2-P1-1_all.deb
bind9-host_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9-host_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.diff.gz
bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.dsc
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.dsc
bind9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
bind9_9.3.2-P1.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/bind9/bind9_9.3.2-P1.orig.tar.gz
dnsutils_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/dnsutils_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libbind-dev_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libbind-dev_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libbind9-0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libbind9-0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libdns21_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libdns21_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libisc11_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libisc11_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libisccc0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libisccc0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
libisccfg1_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/libisccfg1_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
liblwres9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/liblwres9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
lwresd_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bind9/lwresd_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 239665@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org> (supplier of updated bind9 package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed,  6 Sep 2006 08:07:13 -0600
Source: bind9
Binary: libisccc0 lwresd libbind9-0 bind9-doc dnsutils bind9 libbind-dev bind9-host liblwres9 libisc11 libisccfg1 libdns21
Architecture: all i386 source 
Version: 1:9.3.2-P1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
Changed-By: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
Description: 
 bind9      - Internet Domain Name Server
 bind9-doc  - Documentation for BIND
 bind9-host - Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
 dnsutils   - Clients provided with BIND
 libbind-dev - Static Libraries and Headers used by BIND
 libbind9-0 - BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
 libdns21   - DNS Shared Library used by BIND
 libisc11   - ISC Shared Library used by BIND
 libisccc0  - Command Channel Library used by BIND
 libisccfg1 - Config File Handling Library used by BIND
 liblwres9  - Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND
 lwresd     - Lightweight Resolver Daemon
Closes: 239665 342957 356914 372203 386091 386224 386237 386245
Changes: 
 bind9 (1:9.3.2-P1-1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * New upstream, fixes CVE-2006-4095 and CVE-2006-4096.
     Closes: #386237, #386245
   * Drop gcc-3.4 [powerpc] dependency.  Closes: #342957, #372203
   * Add -fno-strict-aliasing for type-punned pointer aliasing issues
     Closes: #386224
   * Use getent in postinst instead of chown/chgrp.  Closes: #386091, #239665
   * Drop redundant update-rc.d calls.  Closes: #356914
Files: 
 4300b25ce950ee43c46e528d44289d0d 107540 net standard bind9-host_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 493c9774c810fa2cb0fcb80e1e551f84 285196 net optional bind9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 49bef4db312e0df38a0d2b640143de26 199574 net optional lwresd_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 6e68b98e1752ab306221c3fb6be5efde 105836 libs standard liblwres9_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 7caf939d49a12e93e8472ac9177c1951 977156 libdevel optional libbind-dev_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 895e86142c4cc0caefa60bfb6ce727ef 86899 net optional bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.diff.gz
 a0b86647ef6a2d5f1e759112d08e2229 5303237 net optional bind9_9.3.2-P1.orig.tar.gz
 a23dfc2a091bb32e3cdadef1993c3633 174190 net standard dnsutils_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 b105b11854951e9b26f01a44256bd674 460296 libs standard libdns21_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 c543dd20c1ae994d9103ca7d9f929764 101562 libs optional libisccfg1_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 c705733a986b7cfde668a6253d2d192e 90226 libs standard libbind9-0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
 d9df445ee56b397ae0e3cb14716d6d9b 180174 doc optional bind9-doc_9.3.2-P1-1_all.deb
 c2d4b405b797499a4b4b7d2a464441d7 757 net optional bind9_9.3.2-P1-1.dsc
 f9362f82a213092f53dc2861574835cf 90182 libs optional libisccc0_9.3.2-P1-1_i386.deb
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