Thank you for this report. I can understand there are differences in
distros sometimes. The default configuration for Debian is to not
create the home directory. You have to explicitly use the -m option to
do so.
Curiously, the question of whether to automatically create the home
directory is not part of the defaults (/etc/defaults/useradd) as far as
I can see.
Also, the -d option by itself is not quite what it seems. I note this
from the changelog:
- debian/patches/459_better_document_useradd_-d
Better document, in useradd.8, that the home_dir specified
with -d is not created if it does not exist
Closes: #154996
And:
- useradd requires the -m option to make it create a home directory
if one does not exist, closes: #39581
So this specific behavior was decided upon in Debian. It is possible,
for different reasons, Fedora chose a different default behavior in this
respect.
In any case, I think the package maintainer should now have enough info
to understand if this needs to be changed, better documented, or left
alone.
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useradd doesn't create /home/user_name directory
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