Thanks Michaelm "passwd backuppc" seems to work fine, but the configure
script does not. I did the modifications using usermod, useradd etc. Is
there anyone that knows the configure script in depth and can help me with
a step by step debug of this issue?
Op di 31 dec. 2019 om 23:56 schreef Michael Stowe <
michael.st...@member.mensa.org>:
> On 2019-12-31 09:03, White FrosT wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> Thanks for the feedback, but I'm not getting there yet.
>
> I tried vipw, but this doesn't work. It was not on my system, installed it
> with opkg install shadow-vipw. But then running vipw gives me:
> vipw: /opt/etc/passwd: No such file or directory
> vipw: /opt/etc/passwd is unchanged
>
> Neither does adding a shell to the user (/sbin/nologin) change anything.
>
> Thanks for any additional idea's!
>
>
> Op di 31 dec. 2019 om 16:54 schreef mlm :
>
>
> On 12/30/2019 6:57 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>
> On 2019-12-30 12:24, White FrosT wrote:
>
> Dear list,
> I have an issue installing backuppc on my new network disk running Linux
> 4.2.8 ARMv71. I think I have managed all preconditions in perl (v5.28.1)
> and are ready to install, but I run into an issue with configure.pl
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> It doesn't let me set the user to run BackupPC with. See the snapshot of
> the script output below:
>
> --> BackupPC should run as user [backuppc]
>
> getpwnam() says that user backuppc doesn't exist. Please
> check the name and verify that this user is in the passwd file.
>
> But the user does exist on my system, see:
>
> [/.../BackupPC-4.3.1] # grep backuppc /etc/passwd
> backuppc:x:1000:1000::/share/homes/Backupuser/:
>
> I cannot seem to workaround this problem. Does anyone have any leads?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> For what it's worth, I've seen this behavior when shadow hasn't properly
> been updated, and it took (takes?) running vipw, then rebooting. YMMV
>
> hi,
>
> Might need an entry where the shell for the user normally goes.
>
> This is what my entry looks like:
>
>
> backuppc:x:988:983::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin
>
> Mark
>
> What vipw does is set the appropriate locks and prevent corruption while
> editing the password file -- under the covers, it's often vi or vim,
> anyway. Depending on the platform, this will help trigger the shadow
> update (thus my suggestion to use vipw and reboot.) In your case, it seems
> the package for vipw doesn't fit with the actual location of passwd and
> shadow on your system.
>
> Usually it's best not to directly interact with either file, as a syntax
> error can result in accounts not working, instead it is better to use tools
> like adduser and passwd. Officially, authconfig (on Linux) is probably the
> right way to update whatever files must be coordinated. You could also
> just use "passwd backuppc" as root.
>
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