Local users in autopkgtest hosts

[Daniel Markstedt <daniel@mindani.net>]

Hi Debian devs,

I would like to ask your advice concerning autopkgtest.

At the moment, I'm preparing to set up an automated test suite for the "netatalk" package.

Netatalk is a file server daemon that you need to authenticate with through user credentials.

So in order to run end to end tests, one need to know the credentials of a user on the host:

Either an existing user's, or by creating new users on the fly.

My question is: How would one go about doing either of the above on the autopkgtest runner hosts?

I don't want to start running `useradd' before confirming that this is allowed,

and/or if there is a more sophisticated way to achieve my goals.

Thank you!

Daniel

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