Non-existent home directory entry in /etc/passwd
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups-pk-helper (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug applies to both Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04, the two distros I've checked.
This is likely a packaging error. The cups-pk-helper user appears in /etc/passwd as:
cups-pk-
Of course there is no directory /home/cups-
cups-pk-
While an edge case in the current compute environment, this is also a very easy fix. Don't reference non-existent directories. Many Ubuntu packages make this packaging error when creating local users with non-existent home directories; e.g. syslog.
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