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snort package

snort package can't install

Bug #146479 reported by Shelagh
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
snort (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: snort

tried to install snort in gutsy, and the message is this

shelagh@pandora:~$ sudo apt-get install snort
[sudo] password for shelagh:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  snort
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 48 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/465kB of archives.
After unpacking 1081kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ...
Unpacking snort (from .../snort_2.7.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
usermod: snort not found in /etc/passwd
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/snort_2.7.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 6
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/snort_2.7.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

It seems there is already a snort user visible to the nss plugins (getent passwd | grep snort) but it isn't a local user, so the snort package cannot modify its settings. Can you double check your nss passwd file?

Changed in snort:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Shelagh (shelagh-manton) wrote : Re: [Bug 146479] Re: snort package can't install

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 21:46 +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> It seems there is already a snort user visible to the nss plugins
> (getent passwd | grep snort) but it isn't a local user, so the snort
> package cannot modify its settings. Can you double check your nss
> passwd file?
>
> ** Changed in: snort (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Status: New => Incomplete

shelagh@pandora:~$ getent passwd | grep snort
snort:x:127:127:/var/log/snort:/bin/false:

Shelagh

Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
Changed in snort:
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in snort:
status: New → Incomplete
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Shelagh (shelagh-manton) wrote :

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:00:23 -0000
Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: snort (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
Tried installing on hardy, this problem has gone away. Thanks.

Shelagh

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment. Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.

Changed in snort:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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