Re: Weird useradd behaviour

["Wim De Smet" <kromagg@gmail.com>]

On 3/30/06, Dalibor Straka <dast@panelnet.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Debian unstable useradd (shadow-4.0.15) doesn't do chown after
> creating a user's home (-m option). I've found in the shadow source
> package a patch with missing chown(...) line.
>
> So... what do you think? Have anyone encountered the same problem?

useradd only adds the user, adduser handles all the other stuff. If
you want to create a new user you're probably mistakenly using useradd
instead of adduser.

greets,
Wim