Tags: patch thanks The templates file has Template: wu-ftpd/anonymous Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Do you want to allow anonymous ftp access? Anonymous FTP allows users to log in to the server using the username ...
And the postinst does this db_get wu-ftpd/anonymous if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then $ADDFTPUSER --configure else $RMFTPUSER --configure fi where ADDFTPUSER="/usr/sbin/addftpuser" RMFTPUSER="/usr/sbin/rmftpuser" and 'rmftpuser' does this: my $itshomedir = (getpwnam("ftp"))[7]; exit(0) unless defined($itshomedir); system ("userdel", "ftp") == 0 or die "Removal failed!\n"; userdel fails because there is an 'ftp' user in our NIS passwd map, which getpwnam() manages to find. Possible solutions I can think of: 1. Conflicts: nis (ugh) 2. default to allowing anonymous ftp (ugh) 3. exit(0) unless system("grep", $itshomedir, "/etc/passwd") == 0; Patch for option 3 attached. Not pretty but it worked for me. Cheers Vince
Index: tags/2.6.2-30/debian/addftpuser =================================================================== --- tags/2.6.2-30/debian/addftpuser (revision 506) +++ tags/2.6.2-30/debian/addftpuser (working copy) @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ my $itshomedir = (getpwnam("ftp"))[7]; exit(0) unless defined($itshomedir); + # double-check ftp user is local to the machine + exit(0) unless system("grep", $itshomedir, "/etc/passwd") == 0; system ("userdel", "ftp") == 0 or die "Removal failed!\n"; print STDERR "The anonymous FTP user has been successfully removed.\n";