Hi,
Many thanks for your quick answer.
The way that MySQL do it works fine. It's in two step, create the group
then the user.
# creating mysql group if he isn't already there
if ! getent group mysql >/dev/null; then
# Adding system group: mysql.
addgroup --system mysql >/dev/null
fi
# creating mysql user if he isn't already there
if ! getent passwd mysql >/dev/null; then
# Adding system user: mysql.
adduser \
--system \
--disabled-login \
--ingroup mysql \
--no-create-home \
--home /nonexistent \
--gecos "MySQL Server" \
--shell /bin/false \
mysql >/dev/null
fi
William
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
> [email protected]
>
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