On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:46:39 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> wrote: >Quoting Marc Haber (2025-04-28 08:39:17) >> I am saying that adduser was written in a time when useradd had about >> a fifth of its current features, and that the local admin can use >> useradd to create local users as comfortably nowadays, and be portable >> between distributions. adduser has developed into a helper for >> maintainer scripts, and I was told a few weeks ago that the months of my life >> I spent improving adduser are going down the drain. > >I don't think that's true. Even if maintainer scripts are moving away from >adduser,
It is GOOD that maintainer scripts are moving away from adduser. sysusers is for most cases the better way to do it. I absolute hate the idea that this is being forced because somebody decided that we should be moving away from persistent /etc/passwd. > - useradd gained the features it did because adduser paved the way for them. Most of those features were already there when Roland hander over the package to me two decades ago. About 80 % of my work was improving the tool for package maintainers without impacting its usefulness for local admins. >Thank you! Your kind words are appreciated. My frustration about the way we take decision remains. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
