I also confirm the problem, that happens to have a high significance for us: We keep the home directories and the system on different partitions in order to preserve user data after system maintenance and upgrades.
User data has a much longer life than the present version of the operating system. Thus in our opinion real world applications require a mechanism for adding existing users and keeping existing data. -- cannot create user when the /home directory already exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
