(Matt, I need more input from someone who better knows LSB than me. Please look at #333706 and add your thoughts here...or point someone you would know having a deeper background about LSB to this bug)
> > Anyway, I don't really follow your reasoning, Tomasz. Do you actually > > reject this suggestion with a kind of "this is Linux specific sh*t" > > reasoning...or do you consider it? > > This is your words .. not mine :) > Mine is "this is RH specific sh*t" :> LSB is not Redhat baby. > Summarize: -r useradd option duplicates some long time avaialible shadow > functionalities (groupadd/useradd -O option was avalaible IIRC allways in > shadow but was not documented). I think that the point of LSB is to guarantee that all Linux distribution tools comply to a common ground of utilities. Having a common way for all useradd implementations to guarantee there exists an option to add a "system" user is an obvious requirement. I don't have the details of "-O" as noone took care of even documenting it so I actually can't tell....I just suspect it needs some arguments so as the minimum or maximum UIDs..... The point of "-r" is not requiring arguments at all. The exact range may be distribution specific but the single switch guarantees for instance a software vendor that using "useradd -r <user>" will be a portable way to add a system user to any LSB-compliant distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]