On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 07:28, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:59:13AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Bah, perl is the ugliest language ever invented ... > > > > Write it in assembler for all I care. But have it do the right thing. > > Point taken. > > It would be easier if the adduser package would include a little script or > something to handle that.
Indeed. That's bug #147518, more than two and a half years old! A patch to do something like this in postinst is in that bug, but I didn't (and still don't) know enough perl to make one crucial line work. -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg
