adguardhome: adguardhome user/group not created

[russelltg]

Package Name

adguardhome

Maintainer

@GeorgeSapkin

OpenWrt Version

25.12.0-rc1

OpenWrt Target/Subtarget

mediatek/filogic

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install adguard home with apk
2. Put config in /etc/adguardhome/adguardhome.yaml
3. have

config adguardhome config
	# Where to store persistent data by AdGuard Home
	option workdir /var/adguardhome
	option config /etc/adguardhome/adguardhome.yaml

in /etc/config/adguardhome
4. run service adguardhome restart

Actual Behaviour

Get

chown: unknown user/group adguardhome:adguardhome
chown: unknown user/group adguardhome:adguardhome

on commandline.

Confirmation Checklist

• The package is maintained in this repository.
• I understand that issues related to the base OpenWrt repository or LuCI repository will be closed.
• I am reporting an issue for OpenWrt, not an unsupported fork.

[GeorgeSapkin]

I just did clean install on a clean 25.12-rc1 VM and I get:

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/group
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
adm:x:4:
mail:x:8:
dialout:x:20:
audio:x:29:
www-data:x:33:
ftp:x:55:
users:x:100:
network:x:101:
nogroup:x:65534:
ntp:x:123:ntp
dnsmasq:x:453:dnsmasq
logd:x:514:logd
ubus:x:81:ubus

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/group 
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
adm:x:4:
mail:x:8:
dialout:x:20:
audio:x:29:
www-data:x:33:
ftp:x:55:
users:x:100:
network:x:101:
nogroup:x:65534:
ntp:x:123:ntp
dnsmasq:x:453:dnsmasq
logd:x:514:logd
ubus:x:81:ubus

root@OpenWrt:~# apk update
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/targets/x86/64/packages/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/base/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/targets/x86/64/kmods/6.12.62-1-780c76c9e68ba0964ba865d615ce42f0/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/luci/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/packages/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/routing/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/telephony/packages.adb]
 [https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/x86_64/video/packages.adb]
OK: 10777 distinct packages available

root@OpenWrt:~# apk add adguardhome
(1/1) Installing adguardhome (0.107.71-r1)
  Executing adguardhome-0.107.71-r1.post-install
  * AdGuard Home config is in its default path '/etc/adguardhome/adguardhome.yaml'
OK: 51.4 MiB in 181 packages
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/config/adguardhome 
config adguardhome 'config'
	# All paths must be readable by the configured user
	option config_file '/etc/adguardhome/adguardhome.yaml'
	# Where to store persistent data by AdGuard Home
	option work_dir '/var/lib/adguardhome'
	option user 'adguardhome'
	option group 'adguardhome'
	option verbose '0'
	# Files and directories that AdGuard Home has read-only access to
	# list jail_mount '/etc/ssl/adguardhome.crt'
	# list jail_mount '/etc/ssl/adguardhome.key'

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/passwd 
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash
daemon:*:1:1:daemon:/var:/bin/false
ftp:*:55:55:ftp:/home/ftp:/bin/false
network:*:101:101:network:/var:/bin/false
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/var:/bin/false
ntp:x:123:123:ntp:/var/run/ntp:/bin/false
dnsmasq:x:453:453:dnsmasq:/var/run/dnsmasq:/bin/false
logd:x:514:514:logd:/var/run/logd:/bin/false
ubus:x:81:81:ubus:/var/run/ubus:/bin/false
adguardhome:x:853:853:adguardhome:/var/run/adguardhome:/bin/false

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/group 
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
adm:x:4:
mail:x:8:
dialout:x:20:
audio:x:29:
www-data:x:33:
ftp:x:55:
users:x:100:
network:x:101:
nogroup:x:65534:
ntp:x:123:ntp
dnsmasq:x:453:dnsmasq
logd:x:514:logd
ubus:x:81:ubus
adguardhome:x:853:adguardhome

Default user/group combo was correctly created on install. And I can connect to the web UI.

Can you share more details?

[russelltg]

Hmm funky, I can't repro in a VM either.

My real machine was installed with a sdcard image created from the firmware selector, and I put adguardhome direclty in the

Customize installed packages and/or first boot script

Section.

Doing a apk del adguardhome followed by apk add adguardhome seemed to fix the issue on my router

[GeorgeSapkin]

Interesting. The user is created by the post install/upgrade script. Could it be that these are not being run by that tool? 🤔

[GeorgeSapkin]

Maybe open an issue there in asu and cc me?