Re: [privoxy-users] Fatal error: User 'privoxy' not found

[Ian S. <ian...@fa...>]

Hi Glenn,

I'm an OS X user but am aware that Privoxy prefers to run as a 
non-privileged user so as to improve security. The OS X installation 
package creates a daemon user and group named _privoxy, so I'm guessing 
that dpkg-deb isn't creating these? You're running as sudo so it's not a 
permissions issue in attempting to create the user/group; does the 
Debian binary installer mandate creating the user/group manually perhaps?

Separately, there's a more recent release of Privoxy for Wheezy - 3.0.23 
- see here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Debian/

Hope this helps,

Ian



On 15-02-06 10:52 AM, Glenn wrote:
> I'm running Debian Wheezy Linux and have no problems installing and
> running Privoxy when using:
> sudo apt-get install privoxy
>
>
> However, when I do the following on a fresh Debian installation:
> sudo dpkg-deb -x libyaml-tiny-perl_1.51-1_all.deb /
> sudo dpkg-deb -x doc-base_0.10.4_all.deb /
> sudo dpkg-deb -x privoxy_3.0.19-2_amd64.deb /
>
> followed by:
> sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
>
> this error appears:
> [....] Restarting filtering proxy server: privoxy2015-02-06 15:46:49.200
> 7f4417f66700 Fatal error: User 'privoxy' not found.
>    failed!
>
>
> Any idea what initialization step is missing using the second approach?
>
>
> Glenn
>
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