On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:47:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:32:21PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Providing that we have consensus on a recommended strategy for > > locking and unlocking accounts which can go into policy, I think all > > we need are examples for how maintainer scripts are expected to > > handle account creation and locking/unlocking. > > The would be rather easy. Account creation/unlocking would happen with > an unwrapped call to adduser --system, account locking with a call to > the appropriate back-end command, or we could add an lockuser command > to the adduser package. I think, the latter would be preferable since > we would then be able to add sugar to the locking process. A wishlist > bug against adduser is in order. And at the same time, we add a check to lintian suggesting lockuser if deluser was detected in p{ost,re}rm. And while we're at it, a check for a nested adduser call as described by Roger could be added, too. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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