Control: tags -1 confirmed Control: severity -1 important Control: retitle -1 re-work of (add|del)user.conf needed thanks
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:53:36AM -0400, Christian Hudon wrote: > The installed /etc/adduser.conf file features most of the variables that > can control adduser, at least in commented out form, together with an > explanatory comment. This is really nice for the sysadmin, as it saves > back and forth between the documentation and the configuration file. > However, some adduser variables are not in that configuration file. It'd > be nice if they could be added too, in commented-out form and with a > short explanatory comment. At least, the ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS and > EXTRA_GROUPS seem very useful and were unknown to this sysadmin before > today, because they were not included in the /etc/adduser.conf file. > >From a quick look, every configuration item after QUOTA_USER in the > (5)adduser.conf manpage is not in the /etc/adduser.conf file. Thanks for spotting this. As maintainers, we should: - check whether program code, config file and man page are in sync regarding implemented and documented options - comment out settings in the configuration files that match the default set in the code - probably give more sense to the order of options in the configuration file - add a reference to the manual page to deluser.conf as well Greetings Marc
