On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:52:46AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
> The installer defaults to creating accounts with group "users", adduser
> creates a group for each user. Sync the two.
> Takes effect only if /etc/addusers.conf is regenerated, ie. new
> installations.
This should lead to at least the appended change to the manpage. This
is a minimal fix. The very feature of removing the group might not be
that relevant, then.

This might look silly to these who know but why are there two programs
to do the same thing (save the useradd is not interactive) ?

Cheers.

hyjial.

Index: adduser.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.39 adduser.8
--- adduser.8   31 May 2007 19:20:21 -0000      1.39
+++ adduser.8   29 Oct 2010 17:37:48 -0000
@@ -209,9 +209,7 @@
 Removes the user from the password database and all groups in the group
 database.
 If a group becomes empty and its name is the same as the username,
-the group is removed (this complements
-.Nm adduser Ns 's
-unique per-user groups).
+the group is removed.
 .It
 Recursively deletes all files in the user's home directory and removes the
 directory itself (provided the directory actually belongs to the user).

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