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and subject line Bug#583976: fixed in adduser 3.158
has caused the Debian Bug report #583976,
regarding alligning UID==GID for user private groups
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Package: adduser
(Filing this, to track the TODOs from the discussion that followed
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00887.html)
Am Wed, 26 May 2010 08:40:26 +0100
schrieb Stephen Gran <[email protected]>:
> This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:30:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said:
> >
> > > > Seems worthwhile to change adduser how you suggest to me, is
> > > > there a bug filed to this end?
> >
> > > adduser has had bugs filed in the past asking for uid to be equal
> > > to gid by default, and I have so far rejected them as not worth
> > > the complexity for the aesthetic pleasure of having numbers
> > > match. Is there some problem with username == primary group name?
> >
> > pam_umask requires both username == primary group name and uid ==
> > gid before it will assume UPG are in place when using its
> > 'usergroups' option, and I am not willing to diverge from upstream
> > on this as this would mean admins coming from other systems may get
> > an unpleasant surprise when they find that Debian gives a more
> > relaxed umask than they were expecting in some corner cases.
> >
> > So either someone should convince Linux-PAM upstream to change the
> > behavior of pam_umask, or adduser should enforce the same rules as
> > other implementations, if pam_umask is to be involved here. Beyond
> > that, I have no particular opinion on this question.
>
> That's the first useful argument I've heard for changing adduser's
> behavior. Interoperability with other software is a useful goal, and
> when I was arguing it wasn't worth the complexity, either pam_umask
> didn't exist or I was unaware of it. I'll try to get this change into
> squeeze.
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Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.158
Done: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Marc Haber <[email protected]> (supplier of updated adduser
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:21:06 +0200
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.158
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Closes: 453086 583976 1140471
Changes:
adduser (3.158) unstable; urgency=medium
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* update german program translation.
Thanks to Dr. Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #1140471)
* improve adduser.8 man page.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason
* try hard to align UID and GID of user and usergroup.
This is a big re-work of the uid and gid selection mechanism.
Thanks to C. Gatzemeier, Ian Jackson (Closes: #583976, #453086)
* reformat ancient parts of changelog
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