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vsftpd package

  1. Bug #530832
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 530832

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

John, this is the same error because the fix for this bug doesn't correctly check if the default user/group 'ftp' exits.

To reproduce :
$ sudo adduser --system --group ftpd
$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd

In postinst the following line is wrong
if ! getent passwd | grep -q "^${_USERNAME}"
and should be at least
if ! getent passwd | grep -qw "^${_USERNAME}"
or simply:
if ! getent passwd "${_USERNAME}"

Same thing for checking the existence of the group. BTW the problem still exists in 10.10.