Package: cockpit-ws Version: 225-1 Severity: normal Hello. For several cockpit releases, on every package upgrade there are two repeated messages: ------ Setting up cockpit-ws (225-1) ... Warning: The home dir /nonexisting you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory The system user `cockpit-ws' already exists. Exiting. Warning: The home dir /nonexisting you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory The system user `cockpit-wsinstance' already exists. Exiting. ------
Leaving behind the cockpit-ws user already exists message (I guess it could be silenced with a test), the /nonexisting warning is what caught my attention. Not because it doesn't exists but because Debian seems to use a similar but different path for the same purpose. For example on my system I see that: ------ # cat /etc/passwd | grep nonexist nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin _apt:x:118:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false debian-h2o:x:119:135::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin tcpdump:x:121:140::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin libvirtdbus:x:999:999::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin cockpit-ws:x:117:131::/nonexisting:/usr/sbin/nologin cockpit-wsinstance:x:125:142::/nonexisting:/usr/sbin/nologin ------ Look, here cockpit is the only one using /nonexisting as home path. I don't know if there are any Debian policies talking about this path and its usage but from what I see, cockpit seems to deviate from the rest of the system. Cesare. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cockpit-ws depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii glib-networking 2.64.3-2 ii libc6 2.31-3 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.16-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.4-1 ii libgnutls30 3.6.14-2+b1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-10 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2 ii libkrb5-3 1.17-10 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libsystemd0 246-2 ii openssl 1.1.1g-1 ii systemd 246-2 cockpit-ws recommends no packages. Versions of packages cockpit-ws suggests: pn sssd-dbus <none> -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
