Package: adduser
Version: 3.118
Severity: minor

Adduser needs a bit of explanation about what we see as a system accont
and what we see as a user account. Especially the system account can be
mistaken with an account that is defined on the local system, that is,
defined in /etc/password, making an account mh with uid 12345 a system
account as well (which is not the case in our wording).

Policy 9.2.2 distinguishes between "dynamically allocated system
users and groups" and "dynamcially allocated user accounts". Maybe we
should adopt this wording in our docs or at least refer to policy from
our docs.

Greetings
Marc

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