Bug 25477 – Add the following users to the system before qmail ebuild...or else it'll fail

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description david mattatall 2003-07-28 20:39:30 UTC]

useradd -g nobody -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmaild
useradd -g nobody -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmaill
useradd -g nobody -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailp
useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailq
useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailr
useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmails


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge qmail

[Comment 1 Nick Hadaway 2003-07-29 23:33:39 UTC]

The qmail accounts are included in the sys-apps/baselayout which adds the initial /etc/passwd to your system.  These accounts have been in there for quite some time now.

Please paste the output of emerge info to this bug.

[Comment 2 david mattatall 2003-07-30 00:13:43 UTC]

Well crap, because I added the groups manually....It kinda doesn't give me the error 
anymore. 
 
Hrmm...it was something to the likes of 
 
no user named qmaild 
 
then it would stop i'd add qmaild and it would do the same with qmaill etc. 

[Comment 3 Nick Hadaway 2003-07-30 07:05:52 UTC]

marking this bug invalid as these accounts are already in the baselayout and should be available on every user's system already.

[Comment 4 Jaco Kroon 2004-06-17 03:09:30 UTC]

pasted into bug 9297