[Adduser-devel] Bug#759740: apt-cache-ng: user apt-cacher-ng already exists error when upgrading

[Eduard Bloch]

Hallo,
* Andrew Patterson [Wed, Sep 03 2014, 12:53:32PM]:
> One possible complication I may be running into is that I am using
> LDAP for user accounts with uid > 2000, which would fail if
> apt-cacher-ng was trying to create a user in the range. But I think
> the problem here is solely that the account already exists and the
> code should be more like:
> 
> 
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
> 
>    if getent passwd $NAME; then
>       : # Or pehaps remove the user and re-add.
>    else
>       adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home $CDIR $NAME
>    fi

I don't know. And as I mentioned before, feel free to use the backport
version. It contains a quick workaround for a similar situation:

   # user should exist. adduser sometimes fails (system range issue) but that's ok
   adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home "$CDIR" $NAME || id $NAME

Regards,
Eduard.