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| author | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2015-11-08 22:14:01 +0400 |
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| committer | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2015-11-11 04:43:05 +0000 |
| commit | 2d1bf738d71a4f4f6ac6832bba3889b2c39a471a (patch) | |
| tree | 51677afcbba55ee5efa7b25bf2fac7a1a6e91088 /debian | |
| parent | 927a55f914b319abb39923ce7efb1f1377927719 (diff) | |
| download | wireshark-2d1bf738d71a4f4f6ac6832bba3889b2c39a471a.tar.gz | |
debian: Finish postinst of wireshark-common even when wireshark group is a user group
Failing postinst has been reported several times under LP#1447893
Change-Id: I196f246b34aa3be9d53f02b4e0092c802effc42a
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/11693
Reviewed-by: Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/wireshark-common.postinst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/debian/wireshark-common.postinst b/debian/wireshark-common.postinst index 052fb536b8..f14c9fda8d 100644 --- a/debian/wireshark-common.postinst +++ b/debian/wireshark-common.postinst @@ -14,16 +14,19 @@ if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $PROGRAM > /dev/null; then chmod u=rwx,go=rx $PROGRAM else if ! addgroup --quiet --system $GROUP; then - echo "Executing \"addgroup --quiet --system $GROUP\" failed." - echo "Most probably the $GROUP group exists, but is not a system group." - echo "Please delete the existing group or re-create it as a system group and try configuring wireshark-common again." - exit 1 + if ! getent group wireshark > /dev/null; then + echo "Error: $GROUP group does not exist and executing \"addgroup --quiet --system $GROUP\" failed which prevents configuring Wireshark for capturing traffic as an unprivileged user." + echo "Please create the $GROUP system (or user) group and try configuring wireshark-common again." + exit 1 + else + echo "Note: $GROUP is a user group, but the preferred configuration is setting it up as a system group. Purging wireshark-common will not remove the $GROUP group as a result, but otherwise everything should work properly." + fi fi chown root:$GROUP $PROGRAM if which setcap > /dev/null ; then chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=r $PROGRAM if ! setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip $PROGRAM; then - echo "Setting capabilities for dumpcap using Linux Capabilities failed." + echo "Error: Setting capabilities for dumpcap using Linux Capabilities failed." echo "Falling back to setting set-user-id bit." chmod u=rwxs,g=rx,o=r $PROGRAM fi |