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.
I have changed the configuration files to have the option settings commented out if they're the same as the default in the code. > 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. According to git blame, the respective documentation was added to adduser.conf in April of 2006, while adduser 3.102, which you have reported this against, was released in January 2007. Any chance that you just didn't accept the conffile prompt when you did the upgrade? Anyway, I took the opportunity to revisit the adduser.conf and deluser.conf files in git, there will be some changes in the next upload. Greetings Marc
