This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:30:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said: > > > > Seems worthwhile to change adduser how you suggest to me, is there > > > a bug filed to this end? > > > adduser has had bugs filed in the past asking for uid to be equal to > > gid by default, and I have so far rejected them as not worth the > > complexity for the aesthetic pleasure of having numbers match. Is > > there some problem with username == primary group name? > > pam_umask requires both username == primary group name and uid == gid > before it will assume UPG are in place when using its 'usergroups' > option, and I am not willing to diverge from upstream on this as this > would mean admins coming from other systems may get an unpleasant > surprise when they find that Debian gives a more relaxed umask than > they were expecting in some corner cases. > > So either someone should convince Linux-PAM upstream to change the > behavior of pam_umask, or adduser should enforce the same rules as > other implementations, if pam_umask is to be involved here. Beyond > that, I have no particular opinion on this question. That's the first useful argument I've heard for changing adduser's behavior. Interoperability with other software is a useful goal, and when I was arguing it wasn't worth the complexity, either pam_umask didn't exist or I was unaware of it. I'll try to get this change into squeeze. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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