Comment 9 for bug 677764

To my novice eye, yes they do appear to be duplicates / related.

As a user, I became involved with this partiuclar bug by reporting a problem I had where an install of vsftpd failed along with some other packages (Bug# 634085). Because of this I gave the developers who sent me questions as much info as I could to help them gain insight into the problem. But other than that my knowledge is limited. At the time I reported my initial bug, I had no clue as to what had caused the failure. So I was unable to locate an existing bug that matched mine so I entered a new one.

----- Original message -----
From: "Imre Gergely" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:21:46 -0000
Subject: [Bug 677764] Re: vsftpd postinstall checks for user/group starting with ftp

Isn't this bug a duplicate of bug #629234 ?

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Title:
  vsftpd postinstall checks for user/group starting with ftp

Status in “vsftpd” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “vsftpd” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in “vsftpd” source package in Maverick:
  Confirmed
Status in “vsftpd” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released
Status in “vsftpd” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: vsftpd

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: vsftpd (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
AptOrdering:
 vsftpd: Install
 vsftpd: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 19 22:28:45 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: vsftpd
Title: package vsftpd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

SRU comments:
Impact: Breaks install of vsftp if any existing user or group name begins with 'ftp'.
How bug addressed: The vsftpd.postinst script is patched so it accepts only whole names 'ftp', not names beginning with 'ftp'.
Patch: See attached debdiffs.
To reproduce: Create a user or group 'ftpfoo' before installing vsftpd
Regression Potential: This should have no impact as it only changes the string being checked for in existing users and groups. If there were a typo in the patch, it could break vsftpd installation.

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