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Bug#684732: unblock: nut/2.6.4-2



Le Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:07:46 +0100,
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> a écrit :

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 21:12:09 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> 
> > Le Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:56:11 +0200,
> > Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> a écrit :
> > 
> > > 
> > > why is the last bit needed?
> > > 
> 
> I didn't get a reply to the above (why you need adduser nut nut).

See #493159

This is to fix a situation were the user nut was not created without
being added to the group. Is that correct Arnaud?

> 
> > > +    if [ -d /var/run/nut ] ; then
> > > +        chown root:nut /var/run/nut
> > > +        chmod 770 /var/run/nut
> > > +    fi
> > > 
> > > why does the nut user need write access there?  And why is this
> > > created in postinst instead of an init script?
> > 
> > nut should be able to create sockets in that directory.
> > 
> > This is probably a bit redundant as this is also done in the
> > initscript.
> > 
> Then I'd prefer to not have it in postinst.

Well this was a copy/paste of the nut-server postinstall script, so
this should also be removed from that file too. Do you want me to do
that for wheezy? The maintainer scripts should probably reworked a bit,
but that will be for later I guess.

Laurent Bigonville

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