Kibana RPM "invalid group" from chown during install

[AndrewMcQuerry]

Kibana version: 5.0.0_alpha3-1

OS version: openSUSE 42.1

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): RPM 64bit

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior: While installing RPM, it would seem that the group creation failed or did not occur, resulting in "chown" failing due to invalid group.
chown: invalid group: ‘kibana:kibana’
warning: %post(kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Steps to reproduce:

1. clean install of openSUSE 42.1 (Leap)
2. rpm -ivh kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64.rpm

Errors in browser console (if relevant):

Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant):
elastic-alpha3-01:~ # rpm -ivh kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1 ################################# [100%]
chown: invalid group: ‘kibana:kibana’
warning: %post(kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

[Bargs]

@jbudz ?

[AndrewMcQuerry]

Digging a bit deeper. In the postinstall scriptlet, I only see user_create method, not a group_create method.. Are you guys expecting the system to auto create a group of the same name?

It would seem that the image that I'm using has this set to "no" by default.

elastic-alpha3-01:~ # grep USERGROUPS_ENAB /etc/login.defs
USERGROUPS_ENAB no

Setting this to yes, and then reinstalling the RPM was successful, and chown did its expected thing..

elastic-alpha3-01:~ # grep USERGROUPS_ENAB /etc/login.defs
USERGROUPS_ENAB yes

elastic-alpha3-01:~ # rpm -iv kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing packages...
kibana-5.0.0_alpha3-1.x86_64
elastic-alpha3-01:~ # ls -ltr /opt
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jun 16 10:47 kibana
elastic-alpha3-01:~ # ls -ltr /opt/kibana/
total 44
drwxrwxr-x  2 root   root   4096 May 26 13:43 installedPlugins
-rw-rw-r--  1 root   root   2445 May 26 13:43 README.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 root   root    563 May 26 13:43 LICENSE.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 root   root    708 May 26 13:43 package.json
drwxr-xr-x  3 kibana kibana 4096 Jun 16 10:32 optimize
drwxr-xr-x 88 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:32 node_modules
drwxr-xr-x  9 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:32 src
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:47 config
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:47 bin
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:47 node
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Jun 16 10:47 webpackShims

[AndrewMcQuerry]

I believe you can just add the -U option when creating the kibana user to always add a group as well, regardless of the default setting.

       -U, --user-group
           Create a group with the same name as the user, and add the user to this group.