Jason Pyeron wrote: > I can check to see if the user is in existance using getent passwd > and then add it as needed using useradd. But now if I put them in a script > the package will not require them, enter the HP-UX issue. Almost none of the commonly available GNU/Linux rpm packages would work out of the box on HP-UX. So I would not try to support it if I were you. In my case it is a platform I need to support and so I do worry about those things. But you should not need to do so. I am leaning more and more toward saying that doing what some vendors do for packages, namely running useradd unconditionally and ignoring errors, is the simplest answer. > [root@testserver redhat]# rpm -q --whatprovides useradd > no package provides useradd > [root@testserver redhat]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/useradd > shadow-utils-4.0.3-23.08 > > This now begs the question. How does one require useradd/getent without > naming the full path or package name? The useradd command is covered by the FHS and LSB. As such I believe you can just assume that a system will have that command. I don't believe you need to require it specifically. Bob
