[Pkg-exim4-users] Install error: user mail was not found

[Mark]

On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 22:30, Mark wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 19:31, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:46:53PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> > > On attempting to install exim4 I keep getting stuck with a "user mail
> > > was not found" error.
> > >
> > > User mail and its group _do_ exist.
> >
> > Are there other users with the same uid/gid? what do getent passwd
> > mail and getent group mail say?
>
> Here's what I've got:
> zev:~# getent group mail
> mail:x:8:
> zev:~# getent passwd mail
> mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
> zev:~# grep 8 /etc/group
> list:x:38:
> scanner:x:108:mim
> mail:x:8:
> zev:~# grep 8 /etc/passwd
> list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh
> mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
>
> > > I discovered the same problem already discussed, but did not see the
> > > solution. See:
> > >
> > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_frm/thread
> > >/f
> > > 9fa82a4fdcf8d2c/928f99e1de29b130?lnk=st&q=%22user+mail+was+not+found%22
> > >&rn um=2&hl=en#928f99e1de29b130
> >
> > That's Debian Bug #376589 which turned out to be an error in the
> > chroot that was used on that system. The root directory needs to be
> > world readable.
>
> Ah right. Well here's some on that then:
> zev:~# ls -ld /
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root root 1024 2005-11-29 13:52 /
> zev:~# ls -ld /var/mail
> drwxr-xr-t  2 mail mail 1024 2006-01-11 17:12 /var/mail
>
>
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I found the problem. If anyone else finds this useful, I had /etc/passwd perms 
set too tight for some reason. Now set to 644.