Configure erroneously says uucp group does not exist
In a message to the mailing list Rainer Woitok mentioned the following:
[...] For a first test I checked out changeset 1942c5fd. However while running
./autogen.sh && ./configure
I got two warnings which I do not quite understand:
configure: WARNING: Group uucp does not exist on this system. configure: WARNING: Locking feature will be disabled.
The group does in fact exist:
$ ls -l /etc/group /etc/gshadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 755 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/group -r--r----- 1 root root 622 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/gshadow $ grep uucp /etc/group /etc/gshadow /etc/group:uucp:x:14:uucp /etc/gshadow:uucp:::uucp $
The same warning is only issued on our fedora-31-clang
builds. There the uucp
group is not in /etc/group
and /etc/gshadow
has 0000
permissions.
On our debian-10-full
build the uucp
group exists and has no members other than uucp
.
Edited by Olaf Meeuwissen