You could potentially work around the regex misinterpretation issue by using some more complex combinations of grep and awk and so forth, but there's a better reason to not use getent | grep.
If /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with a user or group database that doesn't support enumerating users (Hesiod, for instance, and probably LDAP under bad configurations), then the test will return false *negatives* and then try to create a user that already exists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629234 Title: package vsftpd 2.2.2-3ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : registry@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
