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[Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz>]

Sorcery team, please, could you  modify /etc/sorcery/accounts and
/etc/sorcery/groups according to
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129#c3

I installed latest iso http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/ :
/etc/sorcery/accounts contains sshd:111:65534
/etc/group contains nogroup with 65534
/etc/sorcery/groups contains sudo:111:

My suggestion:
/etc/sorcery/accounts could contains sshd:111:111
/etc/sorcery/groups could be modified, I would added group sshd:111:
and modify group sudo:111: to for example sudo:114:

Why does sshd use nogroup? I think sshd could have its own group sshd.
Or modify create_account function to ignore nogroup in /etc/passwd.

Please.
--
Ladislav Hagara, Crypto Section Maintainer
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> Thought I'd get some input from everyone on how to handle this bug. The
> problem is with the create_user function in the openssh spell. The spell
> attempts to create the user/group sshd, it checks the
> /etc/sorcery/accounts file and determines that the user sshd should have
> id=111 and group=65534. The /etc/sorcery/groups file does not list an sshd
> group. The create_user function first tries to create a group called sshd
> with id=65534 (why does it do this?), this fails because the group
> 'nogroup' already exists with this id. Then it tries to create the user
> sshd with group='sshd', since creating the group failed, creating the user
> using the group name also fails.
>
> I'm not exactly sure how this is suppose to function. Should sorcery be
> creating the group if there is no entry in /etc/sorcery/groups? If so,
> then does it always assume the groupname=username? If sorcery shouldn't
> create the group, then the create_user function should use the numeric
> group id specified in /etc/sorcery/accounts rather than the user name for
> the group. I'm guessing the ideal solution is to just add an sshd group to
> /etc/sorcery/groups (the group id number will also need to be changed in
> /etc/sorcery/accounts).
>
> For more info:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129
>
> -casey
>
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