[Bug]: Error building with temurin-17: adduser not found

[haphazardeous]

Please add the exact image (with tag) that you are using

eclipse-temurin:17

Please add the version of Docker you are running

docker:20.10.16

What happened?

Our Dockerfile contains the following

FROM eclipse-temurin:17
RUN adduser --system --group spring
USER spring:spring
.
.
.

This has been working fine but this morning we couldn't run any of our builds as all of them failed with the following

#5 [2/5] RUN adduser --system --group spring
#5 sha256:e77de5906a7a076deb83aff9a4beb9a33be7a535eeab19f1b4904f5a100a460e
#5 0.170 /bin/sh: 1: adduser: not found
#5 ERROR: executor failed running [/bin/sh -c adduser --system --group spring]: exit code: 127
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 > [2/5] RUN adduser --system --group spring:
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executor failed running [/bin/sh -c adduser --system --group spring]: exit code: 127

Can anyone help on this?

Many thanks,
Vedat

Relevant log output

No response

[LaSylv]

Same error, with addgroup

[LaSylv]

I circumvented the problem by using groupadd

It is not a dropin replacement but is pretty easy to do

RUN addgroup --gid $GID --system spring && adduser --uid $UID --ingroup spring --disabled-password spring became
RUN groupadd --gid $GID spring && useradd --uid $UID --gid spring --system --no-create-home --shell /usr/sbin/nologin spring

[hungchu0912]

+1 with addgroup

[haphazardeous]

I tried openjdk-java:17 and the issue persisted. Might not be related to temurin

[pcdavid]

From what I understand, this commit from 2 week ago changed the default base image from Ubuntu focal (20.04) to Ubuntu noble (24.04).

The official ubuntu:focal image used to have useradd installed by default, but ubuntu:noble does not:

[darioseidl]

With eclipse-temurin:17-jre-focal instead of eclipse-temurin:17-jre as base image, addgroup and adduser work again.

[gdams]

Hi all, thanks for raising this issue, this is due to the change of the latest tag from jammy to noble. As @darioseidl correctly points out you can stay on the older Ubuntu base using eclipse-temurin:17-focal or eclipse-temurin:17-jammy

An alternative in noble would be to install the adduser package:

FROM eclipse-temurin:17

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y adduser

# rest of your code

[haphazardeous]

Thanks for all the help everyone. I’m now closing the issue.