Cant create User - Setting up fogproject user..................................Failed!

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth : I too am seeing this issue with Debian 10.2.0 running 1.5.7. Here are my log files for you to take a look at. Let me know what I can do to help troubleshoot. I have also tested the dev-branch with the same result.

/fogproject/bin# tail -20 /fogproject/bin/error_logs/fog_error                                                _1.5.7.log
ii  php7.3         7.3.11-1~deb10u1 all          server-side, HTML-embedded scri                                                pting language (metapackage)
ii  php7.3-bcmath  7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        Bcmath module for PHP
ii  php7.3-cli     7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        command-line interpreter for th                                                e PHP scripting language
ii  php7.3-curl    7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        CURL module for PHP
ii  php7.3-fpm     7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        server-side, HTML-embedded scri                                                pting language (FPM-CGI binary)
ii  php7.3-gd      7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        GD module for PHP
ii  php7.3-json    7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        JSON module for PHP
ii  php7.3-mbstring 7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        MBSTRING module for PHP
ii  php7.3-mysql   7.3.11-1~deb10u1 amd64        MySQL module for PHP
ii  php-gettext    1.0.12-0.1   all          transitional dummy package for php-                                                php-gettext
ii  sysv-rc-conf   0.99-7       all          SysV init runlevel configuration to                                                ol for the terminal
ii  tar            1.30+dfsg-6  amd64        GNU version of the tar archiving ut                                                ility
ii  tftpd-hpa      5.2+20150808-1+b1 amd64        HPA's tftp server
ii  tftp-hpa       5.2+20150808-1+b1 amd64        HPA's tftp client
ii  unzip          6.0-23+deb10u1 amd64        De-archiver for .zip files
ii  vsftpd         3.0.3-12     amd64        lightweight, efficient FTP server w                                                ritten for security
ii  wget           1.20.1-1.1   amd64        retrieves files from the web
ii  xinetd         1:2.3.15.3-1 amd64        replacement for inetd with many enh                                                ancements
ii  zlib1g:amd64   1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 amd64        compression library - runtime
../lib/common/functions.sh: line 1194: useradd: command not found

 tail -20 /fogproject/bin/error_logs/foginstal                                                l.log
 * Checking package: php7.3-fpm................................OK
 * Checking package: php7.3-gd.................................OK
 * Checking package: php7.3-json...............................OK
 * Checking package: php7.3-ldap...............................OK
 * Checking package: php7.3-mbstring...........................OK
 * Checking package: php7.3-mysql..............................OK
 * Checking package: php-gettext...............................OK
 * Checking package: sysv-rc-conf..............................OK
 * Checking package: tar.......................................OK
 * Checking package: tftpd-hpa.................................OK
 * Checking package: tftp-hpa..................................OK
 * Checking package: unzip.....................................OK
 * Checking package: vsftpd....................................OK
 * Checking package: wget......................................OK
 * Checking package: xinetd....................................OK
 * Checking package: zlib1g....................................OK

 * Configuring services

 * Setting up fogproject user..................................Failed!

[Sebastian Roth]

@LJedi How do you run the installer? sudo ./installfog.sh?

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth I run it just under the root user. ./installfog.sh

[Sebastian Roth]

@LJedi said:

I run it just under the root user.

Ok, that’s correct then. I think I’ve heard another user who had that issue and found that he needed to add a PATH variable for useradd to be found. On the other hand our daily install testing seems to work great on Debian 10: http://fogtesting.theworkmans.us/

I am not saying there is no issue. Just seems like we don’t know what exactly it is yet.

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth Thank you Sebastian. Anything I can do to help please let me know. For background, this was a clean install of Debian 10.2 that I did today. Tomorrow, I will be doing another install of Debian 10.2 on a different box. I will let you know what the results are.

[Sebastian Roth]

@LJedi said:

Anything I can do to help please let me know

What happens if you simply run useradd in the root command shell?

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth

root@testbebian10:/# useradd
bash: useradd: command not found
root@testbebian10:/#

[Sebastian Roth]

@LJedi Pretty clear. Try echo PATH and then /sbin/useradd or /usr/sbin/useradd

Do you login as root directly or switch user? Which command exactly do you use to switch user?

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth : I log in as my normal user then use the su to switch over to the root user.

Here is the results:

echo $PATH /sbin/useradd
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games /sbin/useradd

echo $PATH /usr/sbin/useradd
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games /usr/sbin/useradd

[LJedi]

@Sebastian-Roth : I fixed it. I needed to do run su - and that fixed the Path variable that is not set properly. Fog is now installed correctly and the useradd worked great. This is the page that I found that lead me to the fix.
https://linuxconfig.org/command-not-found-missing-path-to-sbin-on-debian-gnu-linux

Thanks again for your help.