Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/useradd
according to /etc/default/useradd, useradd(8) is not capable of creating per-user groups. its manual page does not mention that it can or will do so. the manual page also says that when no group is specified, the default group is "1". despite this, when useradd is invoked without -g, per-user groups are created: 127/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>id testuser id: testuser: No such user 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>grep testuser /etc/group 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>useradd testuser 0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>id testuser uid=1144(testuser) gid=1144(testuser) groups=1144(testuser) 0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>grep testuser /etc/group testuser:x:1144: 0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> "useradd -g users" will correctly add the user to the "users" group and not create a per-user group. either useradd should be changed to not create per-user groups, or the documentation should be updated to say that it will do so. (the former behaviour seems to make more sense, it's very unexpected that a low-level utility like useradd will do such things.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4-hemlock6-twincest Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii login 1:4.0.18.1-7 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: passwd/username: passwd/password-empty: passwd/make-user: true passwd/title: passwd/user-uid: passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: passwd/user-fullname: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
