Bug#378518: cyrus-common-2.2: warning about home directory on fresh install

Ross Boylan ross at betterworld.us
Mon Jul 17 03:40:25 UTC 2006


Package: cyrus-common-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-3
Severity: normal

Severity is completely unknown.

On installing cyrus 2.2 for the first time on this system, I got this warning:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Setting up cyrus-common-2.2 (2.2.13-3) ...
Creating/updating cyrus user account...
adduser: Warning: that home directory does not belong to the user you are currently creating
Adding user `cyrus' to group `sasl'...
Done.
-----------------------------------

/etc/passwd says cyrus has a home directory of /var/spool/cyrus:
# ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/
drwxr-xr-x 4 cyrus mail 96 2006-07-16 20:32 /var/spool/cyrus/

I suspect this is a bogus warning.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 depends on:
ii  adduser         3.87                     Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.2                    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg            1.13.21                  package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim4-daemon-he 4.62-2                   exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  gawk            1:3.1.5.dfsg-4           GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  libc6           2.3.6-15                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.2        4.2.52-23.1              Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libsasl2        2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2         Authentication abstraction library
ii  libsnmp9        5.2.2-3                  NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii  libssl0.9.8     0.9.8b-2                 SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0        7.6.dbs-9                Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libzephyr3      2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-15 The original "Instant Message" sys
ii  netbase         4.25                     Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl            5.8.8-4                  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages cyrus-common-2.2 recommends:
ii  cyrus-admin-2.2               2.2.13-3   Cyrus mail system (administration 
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2               2.2.13-3   Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)

-- debconf information:
  cyrus-common-2.2/removespools: false
  cyrus-common-2.2/warnbackendchange:




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