Red Hat Satellite 6 installation failed with the error "Puppet User resource 'tomcat' failed"

Issue

• During the installation of Red Hat Satellite 6, the satellite-installer command failed with the following error:

  # satellite-installer --scenario satellite  --foreman-initial-organization "RedHat"  --foreman-initial-location 
  "India"  --foreman-initial-admin-username admin  --foreman-initial-admin-password ***
  ...
  
  [ERROR ] [configure] Could not set gid on user[tomcat]: Execution of '/sbin/usermod -g 91 tomcat' returned 6: usermod: user 'tomcat' does not exist in /etc/passwd
  [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Candlepin::Config/User[tomcat]/gid: change from 1002 to 'tomcat' failed: Could not set gid on user[tomcat]: Execution of '/sbin/usermod -g 91 tomcat' returned 6: usermod: user 'tomcat' does not exist in /etc/passwd
  [...]
  Error 1: Puppet User resource 'tomcat' failed. Logs:
  /Stage[main]/Candlepin::Config/User[tomcat]
  Adding autorequire relationship with Group[tomcat]
  Starting to evaluate the resource (214 of XYZ)
  Evaluated in 0.03 seconds
  /Stage[main]/Candlepin::Config/User[tomcat]/gid
  change from 1002 to 'tomcat' failed: Could not set gid on user[tomcat]: Execution of '/sbin/usermod -g 91 tomcat' returned 6: usermod: user 'tomcat' does not exist in /etc/passwd