Re: user ‘Unbound’ does not exist [was: Unbound-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 18]

[Benno Overeinder]

On 2/14/20 12:09 AM, SIMON BABY wrote:
> Hi benno,
> I installed unbound by downloading the source code and make install.
> Below are the details you asked. I did not installed unbound from
> package distribution.

You might consider installing Unbound from the Ubuntu 16.01 repository.
Admittedly, it is version 1.5.8, but do you depend on features in more
recent versions?  Ubuntu does apply security patches to the packages, so
you are safe in that respect.

Unbound packages in Ubuntu/Debian, Redhat/CentOS, *BSD comes with an
installation script that creates users/groups (e.g. unbound/unbound),
directories, and installs init.d/rc.d scripts for starting up services
such as Unbound.

If you want to install Unbound from scratch, you have to take care of
all of these steps yourself.  A good guideline is the Unbound DNS
tutorial https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html.

Cheers,

-- Benno


> t at ubuntu:~# which unbound
> /usr/local/sbin/unbound
> root at ubuntu:~# ls -ll /usr/local/sbin/unbound
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3868744 Feb  7 15:54 /usr/local/sbin/unbound
> 
> root at ubuntu:~# uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-76-generic #86~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 20
> 10:58:26 UTC 2020 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> Rgds
> Simon
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 1:38 PM Benno Overeinder <benno at nlnetlabs.nl
> <mailto:benno at nlnetlabs.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear Simon Baby,
> 
>     The message tells that user ‘Unbound’ does not exist on your system.
>     Which OS are you using and did you install the package from a
>     distribution?
> 
>     — Benno
> 
>     —
>     Benno J. Overeinder
>     NLnet Labs
>     https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/
> 
>>     Op 13 feb. 2020 om 20:17 heeft SIMON BABY via Unbound-users
>>     <unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl
>>     <mailto:unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl>> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>     
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I am getting the below error while trying to run unbound on my
>>     machine. I am using unbound-1.9.6. Can someone please help.
>>
>>     root at ubuntu:~# which unbound
>>     /usr/local/sbin/unbound
>>     root at ubuntu:~# unbound -c /usr/local/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
>>     *[1581621083] unbound[22619:0] fatal error: user 'unbound' does
>>     not exist.*
>>     root at ubuntu:~# unbound -c /usr/local/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
>>
>>     rgds
>>     Simon
>>

-- 
Benno J. Overeinder
NLnet Labs
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/