Agent installation error

[Paul]

I am attempting to install the package ossec-hids-agent onto Ubuntu 14.04.4.

I am using the source, deb http://ossec.wazuh.com/repos/apt/ubuntu trusty main

While installing it is kicking the error 

     Setting up ossec-hids-agent (2.8.3-3trusty) ...

     chown: invalid user: ‘ossec:ossec’

     dpkg: error processing package ossec-hids-agent (--configure):

      subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

When I look at /etc/passwd I do not see an entry for ossec; and I could not find any documentation stating I needed to create one when dealing with the repository.

Am I missing something?

Thank you for any help

[Alexandre Laquerre]

Hi,

when you do a ls -la on the installation file what permissions do you see ?

cheers,

[Paul]

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206422 Nov 12 21:11 /var/cache/apt/archives/ossec-hids-agent_2.8.3-3trusty_amd64.deb

Also, if it matters, I did the apt-get as root.

[Alexandre Laquerre]

hmm after a bit of searching, i found the following details in a previous post from April

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ossec-list/HFKG8wxO8Ow

The suggestion in that post was to create a user in order to solve the issue. It is as if the user is the user ossec is the default user for Ossec and without it, it will not install.

[Alexandre Laquerre]

You are installing the installation package with a root like user correct ?

[Santiago Bassett]

Do you have adduser binary? Try running it manually. I need to add it as a package dependency, as it seems not every Debian/Ubuntu has it.

If you don't try installing it and then reinstall OSSEC, that should work. 

I hope it helps

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[Paul]

Correct. I am sudo -i

Currently, half seems to thing the user is installed, and half does not.

Also, the group is already there in /etc/group ossec:x:118:

Once I created the user; I reinstalled and things seem to have went smoothly this time.

Thanks for your help with this!

[Paul]

Yes, I had the adduser binary.