Comment 7 for bug 1054035

On 24 September 2012 18:10, Scott Moser <email address hidden> wrote:
> I suppose this is probably for historical reasons. For all versions of
> our cloud images (hardy+), there was a 'netdev' user in which the 'ubuntu'
> was present (it is added by 'vmbuilder').

But the current stuff uses live-build - my system is derived from the
scripts that builds your cloud images.

And the hook in 030-create-user.chroot disable user creation for Quantal.

if dist_ge "${codename}" quantal; then
    echo "User creation on 12.10 is handled by cloud-init."
    exit 0
fi

Netdev is created in a 025 default group hook.

echo "Adding admin group..."
addgroup --system --quiet admin

echo "Adding netdev group..."
addgroup --system --quiet netdev

Why have the hooks creating the default groups? Shouldn't they be in
the standard server installation packages so that a debootstrapped
Ubuntu system has the expected /etc/group layout?

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Neil Wilson