Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:06:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>Hi
>
>On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf
>> question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?",
>> resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf.
>>
>> How does the Debian installer team think about adduser removing this
>> debconf question in a future release, causing the account created on
>> installation to be created with home directory mode 2700?
>
>These changes are in unstable now. So please expect adduser in the
>installer to ask one less question.
ACK, thanks for the heads-up!
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