Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups
reassign 329701 adduser
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Maintainers of adduser, please review the log of bug #329701 and
comment. Thank you.
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
> It might be helpful to have everything ready to be changed in one
> fell swoop in order to avoid skew between policy and reality and to
> ensure that everyone is up to speed prior to the change.
All right, sounds good. After I've gotten the OK from all involved
maintainers, I'll start with that.
> > Support? You mean something like "adduser --system-shared"?
>
> It might help convince people to accept such a change if there were
> a user interface for using it.
Right. If the adduser maintainers are agreeable to the idea I'll look
into it.
> > Fair enough, but what parts other than "adduser" are there?
>
> Off the top of my head there are some other implementations of
> adduser around.
Hmm, in what packages? The only one I can find is "adduser-ng" which
does not seem to know *anything* about any ranges, it simply calls
"useradd" and "groupadd". Since it it already range-ignorant, it does
not need to be changed.
(Maintainers of adduser, do you know of any more?)
> > Would you be OK with making this change if the "adduser" package
> > was changed too? (Of course, after both packages are changed, the
> > Debian
>
> I would probably go along with the adduser maintainers on this one.
Thank you. Allright then.
/Teddy
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