diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 15ab24a92..6be761490 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Maintainer: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com>
 Section: net
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dh-python,
+               dh-sequence-installsysusers,
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.22.5),
                cmake (>= 2.8.11),
                cython3:native,
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ Architecture: linux-any
 Multi-Arch: same
 Section: libs
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
-Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: ibverbs-providers
 Breaks: ibverbs-providers (<< 59~)
 Description: Library for direct userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/iWARP)
diff --git a/debian/libibverbs1.postinst b/debian/libibverbs1.postinst
deleted file mode 100644
index 784458a6e..000000000
--- a/debian/libibverbs1.postinst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# postinst script for libibverbs1
-
-set -e
-
-if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
-    getent group rdma > /dev/null 2>&1 || addgroup --system --quiet rdma
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#
diff --git a/debian/libibverbs1.sysusers b/debian/libibverbs1.sysusers
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..587f8d806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libibverbs1.sysusers
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+g rdma