[rb-general] freebsd 12.0 problem

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 01:23:31PM -0600, jathan wrote:
> On 01/11/2019 13:13, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > so I just did an upgrade from FreeBSD 11.2 to 12.0 on our freebsd test
> > host and now the job trying to build FreeBSD master fails with
> > 
> > ERROR: Required ntpd user is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING.
> > *** [__installcheck_UGID] Error code 1
> > 
> > full log at
> > https://jenkins.debian.net/job/reproducible_freebsd/314/console
> > 
> > What is also strange, on the host I see this:
> > 
> > root at freebsd-jenkins:~ # grep ntp /etc/passwd /etc/group
> > /etc/passwd:ntpd:*:123:123:NTP Daemon:/var/db/ntp:/usr/sbin/nologin
> > /etc/group:ntpd:*:123:
> > root at freebsd-jenkins:~ # id ntpd
> > id: ntpd: no such user
> > root at freebsd-jenkins:~ # 
> > 
> > which to me doesnt really make sense.
> > 
> > Any hints welcome.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Hi Holger,
> 
> If you try to create the ntpd user does the system tell you it exists
> already as /etc/passwd says?
> 
> Regards!
> Jathan
> 

This is documented in
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/UPDATING?view=markup#l405

Btw adding manual entries in passwd does not work, because this is not what is
used, a db has to be generated via pwd_mkdb. the high level tools: useradd, pw
are doing it automatically.

By default, it is like pam_userdb on linux.

Best regards,
Bapt
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