import os import sys from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT def create_user(username): print "* Checking for user "+username p = Popen('id '+username, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True) output = p.stdout.read() if (output[0:3] != "uid"): # Make the pypo user print " * Creating user "+username os.system("adduser --system --quiet --group "+username) else: print "User already exists." #add pypo to audio group os.system("adduser " + username + " audio 1>/dev/null 2>&1") #add pypo to www-data group os.system("adduser " + username + " www-data 1>/dev/null 2>&1") #add pypo to pulse group os.system("adduser " + username + " pulse 1>/dev/null 2>&1") #add pypo to pulse-access group os.system("adduser " + username + " pulse-access 1>/dev/null 2>&1") if __name__ == "__main__": if os.geteuid() != 0: print "Please run this as root." sys.exit(1) create_user("pypo")