Package: dh-sysuser
Version: 1.3
Severity: wishlist

It would be great to have more documentation about how this package
works. I tried looking at the homepage, which is just the git
repository and couldn't find anything.

It's only when I installed the package that i noticed the
dh_sysuser(1) manpage. But then it seems a bit short and only yields
more questions:

 1. are users created with adduser? are dependencies injected
    properly?

 2. how are they created? what is the password? '*'? what about the
    shell?

 3. is a group created? if not, what group is the user part of?

 4. what are the permissions of the home directory? in my use case, it
    should be 750 - should i be handling this myself? how do i know
    what home directory was used if i don't specify it?

For example, I would recommend mentionning that most of the work is
done by the sysuser-helper binary. I would also mention the special
way /nonexistent is handled and add an EXAMPLES section for quick
copy-pasting.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-sysuser depends on:
ii  perl  5.20.2-3+deb8u6

dh-sysuser recommends no packages.

dh-sysuser suggests no packages.

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