"groupadd: Command not found" in docker container even though I install it and I am root

Question

I have the below Dockerfile which I want to build. It's basically just the normal jboss/wildfly base image, but built with amazonlinux instead of centOS.

The build error's out with the line "groupadd: Command not found"

After this happened the first time I added the "epel" repo and tried installing it manually as you can see in the first RUN instruction. I have read a few forums and seems like sometimes you get that error message when you're not running as root. I did a "whoami" and I am running as root, so it shouldn't be an issue.

Anyone got any idea why I'm still getting an error?

FROM amazonlinux:2017.03

# Install packages necessary to run EAP
RUN yum-config-manager --enable epel && yum update -y && yum -y install      groupadd xmlstarlet saxon augeas bsdtar unzip && yum clean all

# Create a user and group used to launch processes
# The user ID 1000 is the default for the first "regular" user on Fedora/RHEL,
# so there is a high chance that this ID will be equal to the current user
# making it easier to use volumes (no permission issues)
RUN groupadd -r jboss -g 1000 && useradd -u 1000 -r -g jboss -m -d /opt/jboss -s /sbin/nologin -c "JBoss user" jboss && \
chmod 755 /opt/jboss

# Set the working directory to jboss' user home directory
WORKDIR /opt/jboss

# Specify the user which should be used to execute all commands below
USER jboss

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Your problem is that groupadd is not a package, so you can't install it like you are attempting to do at the moment.

You can install shadow-utils.x86_64, which will make the groupadd command available.

yum install shadow-utils.x86_64 -y

Or to modify your "RUN" line:

RUN yum-config-manager --enable epel && yum update -y && yum -y install      shadow-utils.x86_64 xmlstarlet saxon augeas bsdtar unzip && yum clean all

That should fix your issue.

You also don't need the epel repository, so you can remove that bit all together if you want.