On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a user > > account. Gerrit Pape's qmail package does an ugly > > hit-control-c-if-you-don't-want-these-users thing that I don't like. > > Use useradd. Generally you could also use debconf to ask > confirmation/usernames > for that, but it's not mandatory.
adduser is the correct tool. See policy 9.2.2. I do not think that useradd follows, e.g., the uid allocation guidelines in that section, and adduser's semantics are more convenient for maintainer scripts as well. -- - mdz
