Ubuntu
net-snmp package

user and group is re-created on every upgrade

Bug #1307544 reported by James Troup
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Bug Description

The 'snmp' user and group is deleted and re-added on every package upgrade (of at least snmpd); this causes unnecessary churn to /etc and net-snmp is one of the few (only?) packages I'm aware of which does this.

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James Troup (elmo) wrote :

Example after a recent security upgrade:

  http://paste.ubuntu.com/7250004/

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Reproduced on Precise. Could not reproduce in Trusty. I can see a bug in Precise's snmpd.postinst, which is gone in Trusty. Looks like this was fixed in Debian in 5.4.3~dfsg-2.5.

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

An SRU would be trivial if you need it elmo, but I presume it doesn't matter?

Changed in net-snmp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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James Troup (elmo) wrote : Re: [Bug 1307544] Re: user and group is re-created on every upgrade

Robie Basak <email address hidden> writes:

> An SRU would be trivial if you need it elmo, but I presume it doesn't
> matter?

No, I can live with it, thanks.

(We only notice it when we're upgrading from LTS to LTS (where its
 lost in the noise) or for security updates of net-snmp which are
 thankfully infrequent.)

--
James

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