diff --git a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
index 5913dd27..8996e1b6 100644
--- a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
@@ -349,3 +349,9 @@ For a list of well-known Debian build profiles and common practices, we refer to
 It was replaced by WIC and no more needed.
 Machines that use `rpi-sdimg` image type should be modified to use `wic` type
 with `rpi-sdimg` wks file instead.
+
+### Handling of variables USERS and GROUPS is moved to image post processing
+
+The user and groups defined by the variables `USERS` and `GROUPS`
+was moved from image configuration to image post processing. The users and
+groups are now created after all packages are installed.
diff --git a/meta/classes/image-account-extension.bbclass b/meta/classes/image-account-extension.bbclass
index c9bebe85..caa962a0 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image-account-extension.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image-account-extension.bbclass
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ IMAGE_ACCOUNTS_GROUPS =+ "${@gen_accounts_array(d, 'GROUPS', 'GROUP', ['gid', 'f
 
 do_rootfs_install[vardeps] += "${IMAGE_ACCOUNTS_GROUPS} ${IMAGE_ACCOUNTS_USERS}"
 
-ROOTFS_CONFIGURE_COMMAND += "image_configure_accounts"
-image_configure_accounts[weight] = "3"
+ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "image_configure_accounts"
 image_configure_accounts() {
     # Create groups
     # Add space to the end of the list: