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adduser not available for some distro #5

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Lynxiayel opened this issue Mar 31, 2020 · 2 comments
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adduser not available for some distro #5

Lynxiayel opened this issue Mar 31, 2020 · 2 comments

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@Lynxiayel
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the makefile uses adduser --system --no-create-home --group mercury to add a new user mercury and create a same-named group.

adduser is an actual alias for useradd and may not be available in some linux distros (eg. OpenSUSE). This will cause make install to fail.

The equivalent command should be useradd --system --user-group mercury in these distros.
@davidmcgrew
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Thanks for reporting this. It looks like useradd is present on Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS, so I will go ahead and switch from adduser, once I have tested the change.

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src/Makefile.in and the .deb/.rpm package builder both switched over to useradd.

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