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  • From: "Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: "Sergey A Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>, <evraire AT tuwg.com>
  • Cc: <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Re: [SM-Grimoire]openssh User Error
  • Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:14:03 -0600

Well, whoever is incharge of the master uid:gid list we use in sorcery
should get that fixed then.

-Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergey A Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
To: <evraire AT tuwg.com>
Cc: <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>; <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Re: [SM-Grimoire]openssh User Error


> nogroup:x:65534: is GID which is used for httpd. Don't mess with it ;-).
> There are other sizty five thousand ids to choose from for sshd.
>
> evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > I had the same problem coming from the 1001 ISO. At the time, I was
working closely with Dufflebunk to debug his version of sorcery and he
suggested I delete the offending group (65534) and try again. I did, the
ssh spell recreated the group and was able to create the user and everything
was all peachy!
> >
> > I suppose I should've reported something, but we were so into the
sorcery stuff I guess I just forgot. :) Also, we weren't sure why that
group existed in the first place (ie: if it was actually being used by
something else). I must admit I've never thought twice about it since, so I
guess not.
> >
> > Jonathan Evraire
> > evraire at tuwg.com
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >(Ryan Abrams) rabrams AT sourcemage.org wrote on Thu Nov 7 09:54:45 2002:
> >
> >Hey all,
> >Just cast openssh after installing from ISO beta1. I believe it was
> >intended to create the user seperation user ssh and put it in the sshd
> >group.
> >
> >The problem is that groupadd and useradd dont work. Here are the first
> >3 lines from my compile log for it:
> >
> >----
> >Using gcc version: 3.2
> >groupadd: gid 65534 is not unique
> >useradd: unknown group sshd
> >----
> >
> >It then goes on to build successfully.
> >
> >However, at the end when it configures, it fails to load sshd with the
> >error:
> >
> >----
> >/usr/sbin/sshd -t -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> >Privilege separation user sshd does not exist
> >make: [check-config] Error 255 (ignored)
> >----
> >
> >I am betting that either: a) the spell is configured to require the
> >priv sep user/group, but doesnt use the sorcery function to set those
> >up. or b) the spell uses the sorcery functions, and sorcery is broken.
> >
> >Either way, this needs to be fixed before we go 1.0.
> >
> >I have filed this bug as #1592 here:
> >http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592
> >
> >In the meantime I will add the user and group myself. But the spell
> >should really do this automatically.
> >
> >-Ryan
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