> On May 5, 2013, 10:09 a.m., Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > useradd also exists on debian ("useradd is a low level utility for adding
> > users. On Debian, administrators should usually use adduser(8) instead."),
> > so in principle the paths can be unified.
> >
> > however, when i was trying to implement this a decade or so ago, useradd
> > was apparently requiring the caller to provide a UID, at which point i
> > simply gave up. did i look wrong? or is this feature a semi-new addition?
>
> Raymond Wooninck wrote:
> According to the useradd man-page on openSUSE:
>
> -r, --system
> Create a system account.
>
> System users will be created with no aging information in
> /etc/shadow, and their numeric identifiers are chosen in the
> SYS_UID_MIN-SYS_UID_MAX range, defined in /etc/login.defs,
> instead of UID_MIN-UID_MAX (and their GID counterparts for the creation of
> groups).
>
> -u, --uid UID
> The numerical value of the user's ID. This value must be
> unique, unless the -o option is used. The value must be non-negative. The
> default is to use the smallest ID value greater than or equal
> to UID_MIN and greater than every other user.
>
> So if UID is not given, then it will be determined through the default
> (as indicated).
>
> I am also not sure if debian and openSUSE have the same version of
> useradd, so that the two could be merged in a single statement. If you are
> running debian, then please send me the man page for useradd and I will
> update the patch with a unified approach.
>
> Thomas Lübking wrote:
> O.o?
>
> I've *never* explicitly added a UID to useradd - and yes, i'm that old ;-)
>
> As a "reference", a p-l article from 1999
> http://www.pro-linux.de/artikel/2/893/useradd.html
>
> and here's a manpage, mentioning 1995 as last edition date
>
> http://static.cray-cyber.org/Documentation/NEC_SX_R10_1/G1AH03E/USERADD.1M.HTML
Further checking indicates that openSUSE is currently using shadow-4.1.5.1,
which seems to come from debian as that the source tarball is
http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/shadow-%{version}.tar.bz2
openSUSE added only a few patches to run a script to update a NIS database, so
based on this I assume we can unified the coding. I will create a new patch in
the next hour.
- Raymond
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On May 5, 2013, 8:04 a.m., Raymond Wooninck wrote:
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> (Updated May 5, 2013, 8:04 a.m.)
>
>
> Review request for kde-workspace, Luboš Luňák and Oswald Buddenhagen.
>
>
> Description
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>
> This patch allows for the recognition of an openSUSE/SUSE installation and
> utilizes the correct tools to create the kdm user and group. This would fix
> an very old situation where at this moment only debian installations were
> recognized and properly handled.
>
> The code follows the coding for debian
>
>
> Diffs
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>
> kdm/kfrontend/genkdmconf.c 69b42f1
>
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110315/diff/
>
>
> Testing
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>
> Testing has been done on a couple of openSUSE systems and here the user and
> group were properly created and no more error messages were shown.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raymond Wooninck
>
>
