Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 Severity: normal It appears that usermod requires certain options to be present in order for certain other options not to cause errors, and that they be present in a certain order.
I've noticed that "-o" causes errors if it appears either without or before "-u", for example. a) this is crazy (and breaks other apps which assume that it will behave sensibly) b) this is undocumented Puppet, for example, assumes sensible behaviour and breaks as a result. This is obviously a bug in puppet as well, but does not excuse usermod. "Quirks" such as this should at least be documented, if not removed. Cheers, Nick -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-powerpc64 Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii login 1:4.0.18.1-7 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]