Bug#690963: passwd: allocates UIDs for system users top-down, in conflict with adduser's bottom-up policy

Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1 Severity: normal The 'useradd -r' command (-r meaning 'system user') allocates UID values top-down within the range reserved in login.defs. In contrast, adduser allocates UID values bottom-up. ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2012 - 12:00 PM ET

Bug#560313: adduser: Use db_settitle instead of deprecated db_title

Package: adduser Version: 3.111 Severity: minor Tags: patch The debconf command db_title is deprecated and causes warnings when used. Please apply the attached (untested but trivial) patch to use the command db_settitle instead. Note that I've ...

Message posted on the December 10th, 2009 - 8:00 AM ET

Bug#664869: /usr/sbin/addgroup: syntax `adduser user group' not mentioned

Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Version: 3.112+nmu2 Severity: minor File: /usr/sbin/addgroup Hi, neither the man page of addgroup nor the output of `addgroup -h' mentions the valid syntax `addgroup user group' to add the user to the specified ...

Message posted on the March 21st, 2012 - 10:00 AM ET

Bug#541620: /etc/adduser.conf is not handled at all

Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: normal Hi. It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)... Why this? There seems to be no other handling for merging changes from ...

Message posted on the August 14th, 2009 - 7:40 PM ET

Bug#535857: adduser: --backup-to silently ignored without --backup

Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: important When you delete a user and want to create a backup of their home directory in a specific place, a read of the manpage could easily fool you into thinking that the following would do the trick: ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2009 - 12:10 PM ET

Bug#514436: update libuuid1.postinst to use adduser --system instead of useradd

Package: libuuid1 Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: wishlist short summary: it is better to use "adduser --system ... libuid ..." instead of the complicated parsing of $ADDUSERCONF because adduser has the --system option so parsing ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2009 - 10:40 AM ET

Bug#545024: adduser: deluser does not delete pipes or sockets

Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: important This is related to bug #430640, but I couldn't mail to 430640@bugs.debian.org. There it was reported and finally fixed for the case one does a backup, but just trying deluser --remove-home ...

Message posted on the September 4th, 2009 - 10:30 AM ET

adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

Hi, qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that part of the ...

Message posted on the March 14th, 2013 - 3:20 PM ET

Bug#611898: adduser: manpage mentions nonexistent possibility to run custom scripts

Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: normal The description paragraph of the manpage says: "They are friendlier front ends to the low level tools like useradd, groupadd and usermod programs, by default choosing Debian policy conformant ...

Message posted on the February 3rd, 2011 - 8:00 AM ET

Fwd: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

(Still forgetting and hitting the reply button instead of reply-all followed by manually clearing the to: field. Sorry, Rob.) - Forwarded message - From: Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM Subject: Re: ...

Message posted on the March 20th, 2011 - 7:40 PM ET

Bug#618472: wims: preinst must use adduser not useradd

Package: wims Version: 4.01c-4 Severity: important Hello Georges, wims preinst do <<< groupadd wims || true useradd --system -d /var/lib/wims -g wims wims Debian policy require that adduser be used instead when it is available, ...

Message posted on the March 15th, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

Bug#618472: wims: preinst must use adduser not useradd

Package: wims Version: 4.01c-4 Severity: important Hello Georges, wims preinst do <<< groupadd wims || true useradd --system -d /var/lib/wims -g wims wims Debian policy require that adduser be used instead when it is available, ...

Message posted on the March 15th, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

What the f... I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request from Pol Hallen <ml@fuckaround.org>: [1] From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@eesti.ee> To: ralf mardorf rocketmail com Subject: [Bulk] Undelivered ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2013 - 11:00 AM ET

adduser (with crypted/random) password

Hi all :-) Is there a package to adduser with automatic random/crypted password? I can do an automatic script but if there's a package is better. thanks! Pol To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2013 - 9:10 AM ET