ntpd fails to start, "Cannot find user 'ntp'"
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 22 08:56:04 UTC 2005
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:47:35PM +0100, Claes Wallin wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.0a-11ubuntu2
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> For some unknown reason, ntpd.c gets null response from getpwnam(user).
> *user is "ntp" and user ntp exists in /etc/passwd. A test program doing
> the exakt same thing returns a valid passwd struct.
>
> A workaround is to put the parameter
>
> "-u `getent passwd ntp|cut -f 3 -d :`"
>
> in /etc/init.d/ntp-server, but the real solution is of course to find
> out why a simple getpwnam call fails.
This is: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5399
and it is a strange one.
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- mdz
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