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. -- no debconf information