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  1. Couchbase Documentation
  2. DOC-3742

"useradd command has been disabled" when installing

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      Summary: Error message "useradd command has been disabled because this system is connected to an LDAP server" when installing Couchbase Community on Ubuntu 16.04.

      Repro:

      1. connect to Ubuntu with an LDAP user
      2. apt-get install couchbase-server-community

      Actual:

      Error message (see below)

      Expected: Couchbase to install. Or possibly updating the documentation to reflect why this doesn't work.

      Full error message:

      Fetched 337 kB in 1s (257 kB/s)
      Reading package lists… Done
      hduser@akswnc5:/tmp$ sudo apt-get install couchbase-
      couchbase-release couchbase-server couchbase-server-community
      hduser@akswnc5:/tmp$ sudo apt-get install couchbase-server-community
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      The following NEW packages will be installed:
      couchbase-server-community
      0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
      Need to get 96,9 MB of archives.
      After this operation, 308 MB of additional disk space will be used.
      Get:1 htt://packages.couchbase.com/releases/couchbase-server/community/deb xenial/xenial/main amd64 couchbase-server-community amd64 5.0.0-3519-1 [96,9 MB]
      Fetched 96,9 MB in 19s (5.051 kB/s)
      Selecting previously unselected package couchbase-server-community.
      (Reading database … 251092 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to unpack …/couchbase-server-community_5.0.0-3519-1_amd64.deb …
      Warning: Transparent hugepages looks to be active and should not be.
      Please look at https://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/current/install/thp-disable.htmlas for how to PERMANENTLY alter this setting.
      Warning: Swappiness is not set to 0.
      Please look at htts://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/current/install/install-swap-space.html as for how to PERMANENTLY alter this setting.
      Minimum RAM required : 4 GB
      System RAM configured : 251.89 GB
      Minimum number of processors required : 4 cores
      Number of processors on the system : 64 cores
      Error: useradd command has been disabled because this system is connected
      to an LDAP server.
      dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/couchbase-server-community_5.0.0-3519-1_amd64.deb (–unpack):
      subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
      Errors were encountered while processing:
      /var/cache/apt/archives/couchbase-server-community_5.0.0-3519-1_amd64.deb
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

       

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