Package: adduser Version: 3.99 Severity: minor
When calling e.g. adduser --no-create-home --home /afs/path/to/home --uid 40003 johndoe adduser gives me the warning message: Warning: The home dir you specified does not exist. This is wrong in my case. The specified directory DOES exists, but the root user does not have access to its parent dir, as opposed to normal users with sufficient AFS access permissions. I suggest to add a check to adduser whether it can access the parent dir, and if not, output a different warning message, such as Warning: Unable to access parent directory of specified home dir. Thank you! Best regards, Alexander -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.9 Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-5 change and administer password and ii perl-base 5.8.8-6.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis adduser recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * adduser/homedir-permission: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
