Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: minor I have found that we actually don't have a possiblity to set default supplementary groups for a newly created account. The only thing we have is the EXTRA_GROUPS mechanism which is off by default. This kind of surprises me.
Should we have a mechanism to be able to set supplemental groups for newly created users independently of the EXTRA_GROUPS mechanism? If so, I think the mechanism should look like: Have a new configuration file option SUPPL_GROUPS and a corresponding command line option --suppl-groups. If --supply-groups is given, it completely overrides SUPPL_GROUPS. Add all newly created non-system users to the groups listed. Same mechanism for system users and SYS_SUPPL_GROUPS and --suppl-groups. Should we decide to implement this, this obsoletes the suggested solution for #678615 with more flexibility. Greetings Marc
