Re: Bug in cron postinst

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:

> YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user
> crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough.
> 
> You can get the installation to complete by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst and removing these three lines near the end:
> 
>     for ct in * ; do
>         chown $ct:crontab $ct
>     done

This also won't work with too many users.

And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun.

MfG
        Goswin