Re: [Fedora-packaging] Second user/group handling draft

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Why not just check the exit status of useradd? There is a specific
> exit status for 'user already exists'.

Possible, but would result in quite a bit of "useradd: user foo exists" noise 
on package upgrades or more complicated %pre scriptlets that filter out this 
particular error message but let others through.  useradd would benefit from 
an option similar to groupadd's -f.