On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 11:55:39AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > It would also alter the existing behaviour of adduser, which is to > > return nonzero if the user already exists, which could cause > > breakage. > NACK, adduser --system does return zero if the user already exists and > its parameters are sufficiently similiar to the parameters requested > by the maintainer script. How is "sufficiently similar" defined, and where is it documented? It's not in policy, and I don't see anything in the adduser manpage that explains this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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