On Thursday, August 21, 2014 22:37:13 William MARTIN wrote:
> Package: mumble-server
> Version: 1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2.2+deb7u1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am installing mumble on a HA cluster with gluster filesystem.
> To ensure that all servers have the same id for users and groups on shared
> folders, i create manually all users/groups needed with custom id (i.e.
> 1000+). Unfortunately, the mumble-server configure script failed if the
> user is already created. The create user command failed because the user is
> already created, so funny !
>
> Issue is in debian rules, file is mumble-server.postinst, on the following
> line :
>
> adduser --system --quiet --home /var/lib/mumble-server --group
> mumble-server
>
> Best regards,
> William MARTIN
I had a look through other packages to see how other maintainers have handled
this; most packages do exactly the same thing that the mumble-server.postinst
does and simply call 'adduser' and would have the same error. However there
were a couple of notable exceptions that I think would handle this case:
dnsmasq-base.postinst:
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
if [ -z "`id -u dnsmasq 2> /dev/null`" ]; then
adduser --system --home /var/lib/misc --gecos "dnsmasq" \
--no-create-home --disabled-password \
--quiet dnsmasq || true
fi
exim4-base.postinst:
case "$1" in
configure)
if ! getent passwd Debian-exim > /dev/null ; then
echo 'Adding system-user for exim (v4)' 1>&2
adduser --system --group --quiet --home /var/spool/exim4 \
--no-create-home --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim
fi
wicd-daemon.postinst:
case "$1" in
configure)
if [ ! $(getent group netdev) ]; then
addgroup --quiet --system netdev
fi
Out of curiosity let me know which of the three examples above you like most.
Whether I can get the fix into the -349 package in Wheezy in a point release
is something I'll need to discuss with the Release Team.
-- Chris
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