[Adduser-devel] Bug#326192: marked as done (adduser: adding system user with existing group fails)

Mon Oct 3 21:03:13 UTC 2005

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Subject: adduser: adding system user with existing group fails
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Package: adduser
Version: 3.67
Severity: normal

The postgresql-common package does the following to add its system user
"postgres":

    if ! getent passwd postgres > /dev/null; then
        adduser --system --quiet --no-create-home --home /var/lib/postgresql --group --gecos "PostgreSQL administrator" pos
    fi

I suppose this is common usage.

If, for whatever reason, the "postgres" group already exists, that call
fails:

    adduser: The group `postgres' already exists.

($? = 1)

As a consequence, the whole package installation fails in this case.
That makes adduser --system --group a rather fragile combination.  I suggest
that the existing group is not really an error and the new user should
simply be added to the existing group.

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From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>
To: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>
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Subject: Re: Fixed in upload of adduser 3.70 to experimental
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Version: 3.70

tagging for the BTS version tracking.

Greetings
Marc

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