Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3
* Rick Spillane (26-07-2007)
> OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and
> relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking
> at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they
> were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would
> recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path
> or some substitute that issues a warning. Regardless, I have placed
> /etc/ under source control using mercurial so that I can roll back
> files and compare differences after utilities go in and modify things.
Funny, i've discovered, how bloated adduser is yesterday, while developing
my aggressive distro-cleaner. Now i'm thinking about writing patches at
least for exim4 and cron to have support for ordinary useradd from passwd
package.
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