Spiro Harvey wrote:

Alternatively, if you could point me to a package or a spec file that does this, I'd be much obliged.

From the postifx srpm..

%define postfix_uid 89 %define postfix_user postfix %define postfix_gid 89 %define postfix_group postfix %define postdrop_group postdrop %define maildrop_group %{postdrop_group} %define maildrop_gid %{POSTDROP_GID} [..] %pre # Add user and groups if necessary %{_sbindir}/groupadd -g %{maildrop_gid} -r %{maildrop_group} 2>/dev/null %{_sbindir}/groupadd -g %{postfix_gid} -r %{postfix_group} 2>/dev/null %{_sbindir}/groupadd -g 12 -r mail 2>/dev/null %{_sbindir}/useradd -d %{postfix_queue_dir} -s /sbin/nologin -g %{postfix_group} -G mail -M -r -u %{postfix_uid} %{postfix_user} 2>/dev/null exit 0

--

I don't see anything that removes the user as part of rpm removal, though you could just use userdel/groupdel.

nate

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:22 +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote:

What wizardry do you guys use in the SPEC file when creating/deleting a user from an RPM package?

I was going to create a macro like:

%define user(login,uid,gid,name,homedir,shell) \ echo "$1:x:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6" >>/etc/passwd; \ echo "$1:!!:12005:0:99999:7:::" >>/etc/shadow; \ echo "$1:x:$3:" >>/etc/group; \ mkdir -p $5; \ chown $2:$3 $5

and then appropriate sedness and rm's when removing it, but I figure there has to be a cleaner way, or a builtin as this surely is a common feature. The RPM guide doesn't seem to mention it, or if it does, I missed it.

Alternatively, if you could point me to a package or a spec file that does this, I'd be much obliged.

You know, you could always use the useradd command...

-I