[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-26 Thread ceg
Concerning the UPG group membership: As it is not necessary (and redundant) and gives problems I believe users should not be made members of their main groups. As a result of adding the user to its main group deluser thinks the primary group is not one adduser has created automatically as a user

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
How funny: you linked the wiki spec to the blueprint I had written a few years ago, without knowing how to implement it precisely. The information from the wiki page would be nice to show from users- admin's help, but 1) our help is pretty outdated now, we should rewrite it from scratch using

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-25 Thread ceg
Uh, oh, I got that feeling you know ;-) Seriously, exactly as you write I was seeing the user being added to his primary private group. adduser tester produces this group entry: tester:x:1006: where users-admin produced: test:x:1005:test I had experienced much trouble before because of another

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Seriously, exactly as you write I was seeing the user being added to his primary private group. adduser tester produces this group entry: tester:x:1006: where users-admin produced: test:x:1005:test So I'm happy to find somebody knowing what we should do. I've reported bug 545714 [1] in