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Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser



Considering many have replied, I'll stick to that one:

Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote on 08/03/2022 at 17:49:04+0100:
> (3)
> #625758
> --disabled-password just does not set a password for the newly created
> account (resulting in '*' in shadow) while --disabled-login places a '!'
> in shadow. On modern systems with PAM, both variants seem to be
> identical, allowing login via ssh. Aside from the documentation needing
> change to document reality, should we introduce a --no-set-password
> option and deprecate the two older options (to be removed in trixie+2)?

How about --disabled-login => shell is set to /usr/sbin/nologin ?

Cheers!
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PEB

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