Dear, The bug [1] reports that useradd/groupadd are not provided on BusyBox. And for example, they had this discussion [2].
[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39023 [2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2016-February/083907.html For example, on Debian, adduser is a Perl script calling useradd under the hood. And the current Guix manual says: << On a GNU/Linux system, a build user pool may be created like this (using Bash syntax and the shadow commands): >> where the parenthesis should be understood as: "adapt to your distribution". Two options: a/ explicitly notice in the parenthesis that the chunk needs to be adapted; mentioning adduser/addgroup instead of useradd/groupadd for example. b/ replace useradd/groupadd by adduser/addgroup using the corresponding options. The option b/ means that 'adduser/addgroup' is more portable (more chance to work on everywhere GNU/linux). I am not convinced. Personally, I am in favor for option a/. What do the *NIX gurus think? All the best, simon
