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linux-lts-trusty package

  1. Bug #1001810
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1001810

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TEN (launchpad-20-ten) wrote :

Still the same old (and now new) bugs in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS,
not logging or returning any reason why "sudo service vdradmin-am start had" no effect either.

For a web interface, there really shouldn't be a weak, plaintext default PASSWORD = linvdr in /var/lib/vdradmin-am/vdradmind.conf in 2017 (or ever have been).

After logging in, one is greeted with just this:
Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Compress/Zlib.pm line 482.

Users are also likely to be misled by (what is only due to their respective rights):

$ vdradmind
ERROR: directory '/var/lib/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!
ERROR: directory '/var/cache/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!
ERROR: directory '/var/log/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!
ERROR: directory '/var/run/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!
ERROR: file '/var/lib/vdradmin-am/vdradmind.conf' is NOT readable!
ERROR: file '/var/lib/vdradmin-am/vdradmind.at' is NOT writable!
ERROR: directory '/var/lib/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!
ERROR: directory '/var/lib/vdradmin-am' is NOT writable!