monkeysphere-authentication setup assumes that $MONKEYSPHERE_USER is both a username and a group name
As first observed in http://bugs.debian.org/534008, we seem to have made an assumption that $MONKEYSPHERE_USER is both a username and a group name.
While this assumption will hold for normal use within debian, it will fail in certain testing environments. The bug seems to be in the code for @monkeysphere-authentication setup@:
setup() { # make all needed directories log debug "checking authentication directory structure..." mkdir -p "${MADATADIR}" chmod 0750 "${MADATADIR}" chgrp "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" "${MADATADIR}" mkdir -p "${MATMPDIR}"
(from redmine: created on 2009-07-11, closed on 2009-07-11)