This one time, at band camp, Harald Dunkel said: > Problem: > adduser --system or addgroup --system refuse to proceed > if the name is already provided by a remote directory > service for passwd or group. On the next reboot the user > or group names cannot be resolved, if the (unrelated!) > directory service is not available yet. > > The system users and groups should be defined locally, > independent from the availability of a foreign directory > service.
adduser uses the system nss routines. It's up to the admin of the system to set them up appropriately, sorry. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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