On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:08:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
> unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my "go" to do
> those changes, and if it would be my choice it'd be --homeless ;-)
--homeless should also
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> There are three improvements to make here:
>
> 1. Augment the documentation for "--no-create-home" to clarify intent.
> 2. Implement the "--homeless" option. (This is tentative!)
> 3. Add tests for these options!
Yes! Rationale sec
On Sun, 2021-12-19 at 12:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
> unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my "go" to do
> those changes, and if it would be my choice it'd be --homeless ;-)
>
> Otoh, --nonexistent-home w
Hi,
with my (sadly underused) adduser hat on, thank you very much for
bringing this to public attention. and thank you all others who have
replied in this thread.
I don't have anything to add but my support for the way that has been
unanimously lined out in this discussion. Jason, you have my "go
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 02:10:35PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 19:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > This seems to be a misunderstanding of the purpose of --no-create-home.
> > This option does not say that the user does not have a home directory,
> > but that it should no
Jason Franklin writes:
> I suppose a note in the documentation could clarify things for users who
> may not be aware of these other usage scenarios.
Yeah, that occurred to me after sending my message and indeed would be a
great idea. That may be the right way to close this bug (with a
documenta
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 19:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> This seems to be a misunderstanding of the purpose of --no-create-home.
> This option does not say that the user does not have a home directory,
> but that it should not be created by adduser, and instead will be create
> later by some othe
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 10:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The documentation says simply:
>
>--no-create-home
> Do not create the home directory, even if it doesn't exist.
>
> Passing --no-create-home therefore does not *change* the home directory,
> and should not change the
Jason Franklin writes:
> I am a developer who is new to making contributions to Debian. Most of
> my work so far has been focused on making improvements to the "adduser"
> package. Of course, bug triage is one of the first things on which I am
> trying to show progress.
> On the relevant BTS p
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