Bug#1350: adduser behaves wrongly if called by non-root user

[Ted Hajek <tedhajek@sowhat.micro.umn.edu>]

On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Package: adduser
> Version: 1.94
>
> sfere:richard$ adduser --help
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$ adduser --system --group majordomo
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$
>
> The error message is broken and the program should give help even if
> it's not running as the right user.

You are correct.  I'll fix this in the next release.

Ted Hajek -=- Distributed Computing Services -=- University of Minnesota
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