preinst is in tango-common 7.2.6+dfsg-4build2.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | #!/bin/sh
DATADIR=/var/lib/tango
# If we use NIS then errors should be tolerated. It's up to the
# user to ensure that the tango user is correctly setup.
# Beware that there are two ypwhich one of them needs the 2>/dev/null!
if test -n "`which ypwhich 2>/dev/null`" && ypwhich >/dev/null 2>&1; then
set +e
fi
#
# Now we have to ensure the following state:
# /etc/passwd: tango:x:100:101:Tango Server:/var/lib/tango:/bin/false
# /etc/group: tango:x:101:
#
# Sadly there could any state be present on the system so we have to
# modify everything carefully i.e. not doing a chown before creating
# the user etc...
#
# creating tango group if he isn't already there
if ! getent group tango >/dev/null; then
# Adding system group: tango.
addgroup --system tango >/dev/null
fi
# creating tango user if he isn't already there
if ! getent passwd tango >/dev/null; then
# Adding system user: tango.
adduser \
--system \
--ingroup tango \
--home $DATADIR \
--gecos "Tango Server" \
--shell /bin/false \
tango >/dev/null
fi
# end of NIS tolerance zone
set -e
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