[Kolab-devel] [issue1708] Openpkg install fails because kolab user's shell is /bin/false

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Graeme Mathieson <kolab-issues at intevation.de> writes:

> New submission from Graeme Mathieson <mathie at rubaidh.com>:
>
> I'm just trying out Kolab 2.1-rc2 on a freshly built Ubuntu 7.04 install.  It
> successfully installs openpkg itself, but fails to build or install any of the
> kolab packages or dependencies.
>
> Tracking it down a bit further, I discovered that the line:
>
>     su "${BUILDUSER}" -c "${BUILDEXEC}" | tee /tmp/${PRG}-${PKG}.rebuild.log
>
> (in the @rebuild function of the obmtool script) was doing nothing.  It turns
> out that ${BUILDUSER} is set to kolab, and that kolab's shell is /bin/false. 
> When su is used in this manner, it runs the command passed through the user's
> default shell which, being /bin/false, silently does nothing but exit with a
> status code of 1.
>
> Two solutions:
>
> * Set the kolab user's shell to /kolab/lib/openpkg/bash.  This is the solution I
> chose because it was, well, the easiest one. :-)

I thought this happens by default. At least I have this in my
/etc/passwd and I don't think I modified it.

But maybe setting it to /bin/false would be a safer option anyhow.

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