Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:34:12 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question Message-ID: <1532277252.1344.105.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20180721220925.GA40238@www.zefox.net> References: <5b90c49f-4616-9ef7-28a1-6445137245ef@nomadlogic.org> <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> <4b7acbd2-0230-345c-4370-24a72d0b492a@nomadlogic.org> <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org> <20180721174722.GA40167@www.zefox.net> <1532196850.1344.87.camel@freebsd.org> <20180721220925.GA40238@www.zefox.net>
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On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 15:09 -0700, bob prohaska wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > > > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint > > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the > > installworld target. > > > My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in > installworld > and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error: > Locked : yes > OK? (yes/no): yes > pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid > adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd). > On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well. > > The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name? > > The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start, > so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that > happens, > what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer, > something > less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files. > > There's minimal customization on the machine, basically /etc/fstab, > /etc/rc.conf and /etc/passwd. Nothing else of real value, so if I > kill > it in the attempt it won't be a disaster. > > > Thanks for waking me to my blunder... > > bob prohaska > The important changes that mergemaster would handle are: - add ntpd user, id 123 - add ntpd group, id 123 - set ntpd_flags="" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf - install the new /etc/rc.d/ntpd You can add the user by doing vipw and pasting the ntpd line from /usr/src/etc/master.passwd, IMO easier than doing adduser and answering all the questions. -- Ian
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