[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1125789: With --variant apt: post_setup_dummy_users: 21: useradd: not found

Stefano Rivera stefanor at debian.org
Sat Jan 17 18:28:18 GMT 2026


Package: piuparts
Version: 1.6.0
Severity: wishlist

The post_setup_dummy_users script assumes a minbase basetgz. Piuparts 
seems to work with less (e.g. the mmdebstrap apt variant), but 
post_setup_dummy_users doesn't.

This could be solved by inserting e.g.

if [ ! -e /usr/sbin/useradd ]; then
    apt-get -y install passwd
fi

Stefano



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