>Number:         35570
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       etcupdate(8) runs mtree on outdated passwd/group information
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 08 15:25:00 +0000 2007
>Originator:     Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0_BETA2
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD Gurgler 4.0_BETA2 NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (GURGLER-$Revision: 1.8 $) #0: Wed Feb 7 17:48:48 CET 2007 hf@Hochstuhl:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/4/sparc/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GURGLER sparc
Architecture: sparc
Machine: sparc
>Description:

When it adds new users and groups to /etc/{group,passwd}, etcupdate(8)
runs mtree on outdated passwd/group information: 

[...]

*** The following files need your attention:

  /tmp/temproot/etc/csh.cshrc
  /tmp/temproot/etc/csh.login
  /tmp/temproot/etc/csh.logout
  /tmp/temproot/etc/hosts
  /tmp/temproot/etc/motd
  /tmp/temproot/etc/profile
  /tmp/temproot/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
  /tmp/temproot/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
  /tmp/temproot/root/.cshrc
  /tmp/temproot/var/cron/tabs/root
  /tmp/temproot/.cshrc

Remove /tmp/temproot? (y/[n]) y
*** Removing /tmp/temproot
You have created new directories. Run mtree to set permissions? (y/[n]) y
mtree: unknown user `_rwhod'
mtree: failed at line 1103 of the specification
Do you want to rebuild the device nodes in /dev? (y/[n]) y
Running MAKEDEV in /dev
Do you want to rebuild the mail alias database? (y/[n]) y
Running newaliases
Do you want to rebuild the password databases from the new master.passwd? (y/[n]) y
Running pwd_mkdb
*** All done
[hf@Gurgler] /home/hf # 

	When there are new users and groups added by etcupdate(8), it
	should update the passwd and group databases _before_ running
	mtree on the filesystem.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Upgrade a NetBSD installation, then run etcupdate(8).
	Watch mtree fail because of "unknown users or groups".

	This problem has been around for a long time.

>Fix:
	Have etcupdate(8) update the /etc/*.db databases before it
	runs mtree - preferably in time for the NetBSD 4 release.

>Unformatted: