[Bug 1012649] Re: puppet-common postinst assumes puppet group is present if puppet user is present

[Robie Basak]

Thanks Sven.

I'm not sure if this is a valid bug or not. I understand why it doesn't
work in your case, but it could be argued that it's too much of an edge
case to expect the postinst to handle it.

So I think the workarounds are:
 1) Do not have the puppet user or group in NIS/LDAP.
 2) Have both the puppet user and group in NIS/LDAP.

There's some discussion of how this should be handled as standard here:
    http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00197.html

I found a bug that deals with it differently here:
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386091

I don't think it's worth maintaining a delta in Ubuntu for this issue.
If you wish, you can submit this bug to Debian (see
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting). If the bug is fixed in Debian,
then Ubuntu will pick it up. If you do submit a Debian bug, please link
to it from here to help tracking.

Thanks again for your time on this issue. Even though I don't think this
particular issue is worth fixing in Ubuntu, I appreciate your
contribution.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #386091
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386091

** Changed in: puppet (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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