Hi! On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:07:23AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I see the following rationale here: > > adduser is the recommended way to add regular users on Debian > systems. As bash is the default shell on Debian, it seems logical to > me that adduser proposes it as the defalt shell for users. > > useradd is, as we often said, a lower level utility, so on Debian is > is aimed to be used as a very generic way to add users. Being generic, > it should rather default to a generic shell. > > Anyway, if ones feels there is a bug, it rather pertains to > adduser. I'm deeply against using DSHELL=/bin/bash in > /etc/default/useradd
Completely agreed -- these are indeed different settings, but their presence in configs with similar named values may mislead system administrators. That's why I dislike it. But there are other settings which differ only in being considered low/high level, like USERS_GID=100 -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
