Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:19:56 +0100, Harald Dunkel
<harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> wrote:
>This is another trap: /etc/login.defs seems to define some ranges for
>"system" uids and gids. They are commented out by default, nevertheless
>they imply some configurability. Are changes in login.defs supposed to
>be respected by all packages, including passwd (useradd) and adduser?
fwiw, adduser has never been interested in this configuration. the
login.defs(5) manpage says that it is the "shadow password suite
configuration". I am not sure whether adduser should honor that
configuration. At least both configurations are in sync to each other.
Would it make sense that adduser reads login.defs if the respective
setting is not overridden in adduser.conf?
Greetings
Marc
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