On 22 February 2018 at 21:12, MarkusHiereth <translat...@hiereth.de> wrote:
> Hello, > > when updating the German translations of the shadow package, I > encountered strange things in the documentation. For example an option > --non-unique for the commands useradd and usermod. With the first, the > system administrator is able to force the system to create a new user > with an ID that already exists, which is related to another user. > > One effect I would expect after using useradd with this option is that > files and directories are owned by two persons - as the UID of a file > indicates the owner. > > Has anybody an idea about the purpose of such an option? > Perhaps it was created for people suffering from multiple personality disorder. Who knows Cheers MF > > >From my point of view it is necessary that the respective manual pages > explain why one might use such an option and / or warn what a mess > might be created with it. > > On the debian IRC channel, one comment on this problem was, Linux is a > friendly operating system. It will not prevent users from shooting > themselves in the foot. > > Please cc your posts to my mail addresse as I am not a subscriber of > this list. > > Best regards > Markus > >
