Greetings, Chris:
> This is because whilst adduser respects --quiet for its own message, it
> does not silence the call out to gpasswd:
I think that adduser should mimic the behavior of deluser here to avoid
being unnecessarily noisy.
The "deluser" utility does the following...
440 #systemcall("usermod","-G", join(",",@groups), $user );
441 my $gpasswd = &which('gpasswd');
442 &systemcall($gpasswd,'-M', join(',',@members), $group);
443 &invalidate_nscd();
444 s_print (gtx("Done.\n"));
The "-M" option to gpasswd accepts a new list of users to belong to a
group and has the benefit of being silent. Thus, invoking...
deluser --quiet foo bar
... behaves as expected and is not noisy.
The deluser utility builds a list, and removes the user from the list
which it then passes to the "-M" option. The adduser utility simply has
to do the opposite and add the user to the existing list of users in the
specified group.
Then, everyone is happy. :)
--
Jason Franklin
