Who screwed up ClamAV in F18?
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue May 28 13:36:18 UTC 2013
Ok... (Before anyone tells me I need to) I will be filing a bugzilla
report on this later today but someone did a bad thing in ClamAV.
If you install the latest packages from the update repositories, they
url chunks unable to create the clamupdate user and group. Problem
appears to be in the clamav-update package.
During the yum install of the clamav packages...
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groupadd [options] GROUP
Options:
-f, --force exit successfully if the group already exists,
and cancel -g if the GID is already used
-g, --gid GID use GID for the new group
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-K, --key KEY=VALUE override /etc/login.defs defaults
-o, --non-unique allow to create groups with duplicate
(non-unique) GID
-p, --password PASSWORD use this encrypted password for the new group
-r, --system create a system account
-R, --root CHROOT_DIR directory to chroot into
useradd: group 'clamupdate' does not exist
warning: user clamupdate does not exist - using root
warning: group clamupdate does not exist - using root
Installing: clamav-filesystem ################### [1522/2490]
Installing: clamav-update ################### [1523/2490]/usr/bin/chown: invalid group: ‘root:clamupdate’
No such file or directory
warning: %post(clamav-update-0.97.8-1.fc18.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
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I've had to add that user and group by hand on some of my real systems
but that's not possible in building the NST (Network Security Toolkit)
<http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html> respins of F18
since those are building bootable iso images.
Obviously, it only affects fresh installs where someone installs ClamAV
on a new system (or, at least, one that hasn't had it on there before).
If the UID and GID already exist on the system, there's not a problem.
Regards,
Mike
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