On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> AFAIK adduser is Debian specific and useradd came from other distros.
> AFAIK Debian supports useradd as a nod to those other distros. And
> because IIRC the LSB requires it.
Debian is the upstream of both useradd and adduser.
adduser is a
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Reco wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:00:32PM +, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d".
>>
>> If your assumption that useradd short options should be understood
>> adduser, isn't this a bug?
>
> I don't know.
Reco wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
> > I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d".
> >
> > If your assumption that useradd short options should be understood
> > adduser, isn't this a bug?
I don't think there is an expectation of cross compatibility of
options between those two
Reco wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
> > What does "-d" mean?
>
> Compatibility with useradd, which has '-d'. To my surprise manpage
> doesn't mention it.
Usually programs do not document options they don't want you to use.
This is a way of deprecating them without actually breaking scripts by
removing the
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:00:32PM +, Tom H wrote:
> I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d".
>
> If your assumption that useradd short options should be understood
> adduser, isn't this a bug?
I don't know. But the behaviour of adduser and useradd is consistent i
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:05:12AM +, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> What does "-d" mean?
>
> Compatibility with useradd, which has '-d'. To my surprise manpage
> doesn't mention it.
I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d".
If
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Bob Proulx wrote:
Reco wrote:
The contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/colord.postinst explain this
behavior. Basically, they create the needed directory first, add the
colord user then and finally change permissions for the dir.
IMO, this is the usual thing, not a bug.
I just
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:48:44 +0400
From: Reco
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: colord Warning during upgrade to wheezy
Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:48:24 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
[snip]
I'm unsure wheneve
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:05:12AM +, Tom H wrote:
> What does "-d" mean?
Compatibility with useradd, which has '-d'. To my surprise manpage
doesn't mention it.
> [root@lenovo15]# adduser --home /var/a/b/c test
> Adding user `test' ...
> Adding new group `test' (1001) ...
> Adding new user `t
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:13:41AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> I just looked at that script. I agree that as written now that it is
>> expected behavior by that script. But I think the script is not
>> written well. It should create the user fir
Hi.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:13:41AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I just looked at that script. I agree that as written now that it is
> expected behavior by that script. But I think the script is not
> written well. It should create the user first. It is using adduser
> to create the user. I
Reco wrote:
> The contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/colord.postinst explain this
> behavior. Basically, they create the needed directory first, add the
> colord user then and finally change permissions for the dir.
>
> IMO, this is the usual thing, not a bug.
I just looked at that script. I agree t
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:20:50 +0400
From: Reco
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Itay
Subject: Re: colord Warning during upgrade to wheezy
Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:21:10 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Hi.
On Sun, 24 Nov
Hi.
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:05:15 +0200 (IST)
Itay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During upgrade squeeze -> wheezy the following warning came up:
>
> Setting up colord (0.1.21-1) ...
> adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/colord' does not belong to the
> user you are currently creating.
>
> At p
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