Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at ...

[Daniel Richard G.]

When I install krb5-config 2.3 (along with some other Kerberos-related packages) on Ubuntu Quantal, I see this:

[...]
Get:8 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe krb5-user amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-2 [114 kB]
Get:9 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe kstart amd64 4.1-2 [54.3 kB]
Fetched 1620 kB in 1s (1093 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at /tmp/krb5-config.config.261821 line 171, <STDIN> line 19.
Selecting previously unselected package libgssrpc4:amd64.
(Reading database ... 46594 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgssrpc4:amd64 (from .../libgssrpc4_1.10.1+dfsg-2_amd64.deb) ...
[...]
Setting up libkadm5srv-mit8:amd64 (1.10.1+dfsg-2) ...
Setting up krb5-config (2.3) ...
Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at /var/lib/dpkg/info/krb5-config.config line 171, <STDIN> line 19.
Setting up libpam-krb5:amd64 (4.6-1) ...
Setting up krb5-doc (1.10.1+dfsg-2) ...
[...]

[Russ Allbery (rra-debian)]

This should be harmless, just noisy, but will be fixed in the next release. Thanks!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Assuming Triaged because Russ says so. Thanks Russ!

[William Van Hevelingen (blkperl)]

This shows up in Trusty in a different location

Setting up krb5-config (2.3) ...
Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at /var/lib/dpkg/info/krb5-config.config line 171, <STDIN> line 19.
[more output]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kerberos-configs - 2.6

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kerberos-configs (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update for cs.cmu.edu, Closes: #841372

 -- Sam Hartman <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:02:30 -0400