Is it worth spending more time on adduser? (was: Bug#1104169: wish: adduser _radvd on new installs)
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:29:07 +0200, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
wrote:
>While you are at it, please switch to sysusers (see dh_installsysusers).
While we're at this, I would like to ask the developer commiunity
whether it is true that we have dedided to go away from having
persistent /etc/passwd and /etc/group and that it will soon be
officially forbidden to use adduser in packages?
If that is actually the case, I'd like to see the discussion that I
must have overlooked.
And, if that is actually the case, adduser 3.150 will be the last
version of adduser maintained by me. Basically forbidding adduser will
spill months of my lifetime down the drain that I spent on the package
in the last 20 years. I'd rather stop wasting more of my life now than
in a month or so. I might even orphan adduser in that case.
Where are we going regarding user creation?
Greetings
Marc
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