useradd fails to create the user sshd. Package installation fails.

[Mike Luca]

Latest Ubuntu Dapper Beta, updated this morning. Ran Synaptic to install openssh-server, 1:4.2p1-7ubuntu1. In the terminal after the keys are generated, the following appears.

useradd: name sshd is not unique
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/run/sshd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 107 sshd' returned error code 9. Aborting.
dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openssh-server

I have tried to add the user sshd to the system manually, but get the same result. The user sshd does not show up in my passwd file or in /etc/shadow. I tried disabling user seperation in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and in /etc/init.d/ssh but to no avail.

[Mike Luca (mike-luca)]

For now, to get this to start, I commented out the lines that check for privledge seperation users in /etc/init.d/ssh and changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read UsePrivlidgeSeperation no. This starts the daemon.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

You've the same problem on Dapper or Feisty ?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Fixed on Feisty...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No report back from the user (Marco didn't wait for one, either), and there's every possibility that this is specific to certain setups. Reopening pending further information.

Mike, is there anything at all unusual about your setup, such as LDAP authentication? Can you confirm whether this still happens with current releases of Ubuntu?

[pedro (menofgod)]

I do not obtain to add to 1 user I do not find useradd I appear me an error
help me please
estagio@pc-estagio:~$ to /usr/bin/adduser nagios
bash: to /usr/bin/adduser: Filing-cabinet or in existent directory

[Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel)]

[LaFume:~] nxvl$ whereis adduser
adduser: /usr/sbin/adduser /etc/adduser.conf /usr/share/adduser /usr/share/man/man8/adduser.8.gz

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

estagio@pc-estagio:~$ to /usr/bin/adduser nagios
bash: to /usr/bin/adduser: Filing-cabinet or in existent directory

You're running the program "to", which is part of the casu package, intended to send a short message to another user on the system. This is probably a minor typographical error.

Secondly, adduser is located at /usr/sbin/adduser rather than /usr/bin/adduser. Note the additional "s" in sbin. This another typographical error.

Thirdly, I don't think this has anything to do with the original bug.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!