Source: shadow Version: 1:4.11.1+dfsg1-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org
Hi, David Kalnischkies created https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/558 against shadow upstream which got merged into master with https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/ebf9b232b012725d2be5e750876c7336cf1c37fd Please consider backporting that patch to the Debian packaging. This change is useful because otherwise useradd will potentially create several hundred (!!) GB worth of sparse files for users with high user id values even in cases where there is no data to zero-out. To prevent this, people have started calling useradd with --no-log-init. This has even made it into the docker best practices: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_best-practices/#user I created a merge request on salsa for your convenience: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shadow/-/merge_requests/16 Thanks! cheers, josch
