On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Hi all, > > I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper > scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are > described. > > How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts, > for instance : > > 1. create a user *and* set their password
You are best to explore an existing package which creates a user, e.g. exim4. I believe it's a mostly manual process. Note that I don't know of any Debian packages which actually set a user password… that doesn't sound like a great idea. What are you doing? See http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk/debian/exim4-config.postinst?view=markup around line 193 > 193 if [ "$1" = "configure" ] &&\ > 194 ! getent passwd Debian-exim > /dev/null ; then > 195 echo 'Adding system-user for exim (v4)' 1>&2 > 196 adduser --system --group --quiet --home /var/spool/exim4 \ > 197 --no-create-home --disabled-login --force-badname > Debian-exim > 198 fi Note that this is the postinst rather than preinst. > 2. ssh-keygen with no user input ("Enter passphrase") Run ssh-keygen with no stdin (</dev/null or similar, I think works) > 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password Urgh. This sounds uglier and uglier :) Provide some SQL to achieve what you want in a file in the package, as a very first step. Make sure you've depended on MySQL. Will you know what the correct Database name will be? Can you guarantee it will exist? > I've fooled around with Expect for 1. and 2., and tried > mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables for 3., but I feel > lame (and I have to have my preinst script stop/start the > MySQL server during install) .. > > If I'm not asking the correct list, I'm sorry, but could you please > direct me to the documentation I should read or other mailing list > I should contact ? debian-mentors for beginner packaging questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120822130557.GD10344@debian
