Package: snmpd Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The snmp package appears to remove any system user named "snmp" whenever it is upgraded. How to reproduce: 1. Downgrade your snmpd package (e.g. by removing the package, removing the security repository and installing the package again from the main repository) 2. Create a system user called "snmp" 3. Add the security repository, apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Observe that the snmpd package will be upgraded. 4. Observe that the user "snmp" is gone from the system. The expected outcome would be that the user "snmp" still exists. Ever since the migration to the user "Debian-snmp", admins may be using users called "snmp" for other purposes than what Debian-snmp is intended for, so snmpd shouldn't remove these users. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages snmpd depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libsnmp-base 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u1 ii libsnmp30 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 snmpd recommends no packages. Versions of packages snmpd suggests: pn snmptrapd <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/snmpd changed: export MIBS= SNMPDRUN=yes SNMPDOPTS='-LS4d -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -g snmp -I -smux,mteTrigger,mteTriggerConf -p /run/snmpd.pid' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf' /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf' -- debconf information: snmpd/upgradefrom521: