[CMake] Create user and group with CPack

[Eric Noulard]

2017-07-20 10:39 GMT+02:00 Kristian <kristianonline28 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I create a RPM package with CPack. When installing this package on a
> target system, it should create an additional user and group.
>
> My current solution is a postinstall script, wich runs at the end of
> the installation. There, I added commands to create a user and a group
> (groupadd, useradd). But somehow, they aren't created when installing
> this RPM package.


Did you specify this post install script to CPackRPM?
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.7/module/CPackRPM.html#variable:CPACK_RPM_POST_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE

You can check that the generated RPM does include the script with:

 rpm -qp --scripts  <yourpackage>.rpm


> For testing, I install this RPM package in a docker
> container.
>
> I also tried, if these commands (groupadd, useradd) are working on the
> docker container and they are, so this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> So, how can I create a user and a group with CPack / CMake?
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Eric
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