On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:08:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
> unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my "go" to do
> those changes, and if it would be my choice it'd be --homeless ;-)
--homeless should also
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> There are three improvements to make here:
>
> 1. Augment the documentation for "--no-create-home" to clarify intent.
> 2. Implement the "--homeless" option. (This is tentative!)
> 3. Add tests for these options!
Yes! Rationale
On Sun, 2021-12-19 at 12:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
> unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my "go" to do
> those changes, and if it would be my choice it'd be --homeless ;-)
>
> Otoh, --nonexistent-home
Hi,
with my (sadly underused) adduser hat on, thank you very much for
bringing this to public attention. and thank you all others who have
replied in this thread.
I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 02:10:35PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 19:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > This seems to be a misunderstanding of the purpose of --no-create-home.
> > This option does not say that the user does not have a home directory,
> > but that it should
Jason Franklin writes:
> I suppose a note in the documentation could clarify things for users who
> may not be aware of these other usage scenarios.
Yeah, that occurred to me after sending my message and indeed would be a
great idea. That may be the right way to close this bug (with a
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 19:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> This seems to be a misunderstanding of the purpose of --no-create-home.
> This option does not say that the user does not have a home directory,
> but that it should not be created by adduser, and instead will be create
> later by some
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 10:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The documentation says simply:
>
>--no-create-home
> Do not create the home directory, even if it doesn't exist.
>
> Passing --no-create-home therefore does not *change* the home directory,
> and should not change the
Jason Franklin writes:
> I am a developer who is new to making contributions to Debian. Most of
> my work so far has been focused on making improvements to the "adduser"
> package. Of course, bug triage is one of the first things on which I am
> trying to show progress.
> On the relevant BTS
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