Re: Using the user nobody in my package
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:41:30AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I always use something like this in my postinst scripts
>
> if ! getent group foo > /dev/null ; then
> addgroup --quiet --system foo
> fi
>
> This avoids the warning/error message, if the group/user already exists.
With my adduser maintainer hat on, that is not the way adduser is
intended to be used. We went to great lengths to make adduser useable
without any surrounding bugs^wcode.
Greetings
Marc
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