Gábor,

Gábor Boskovits 写道:
Oops, I missed that.

I'm suprised I haven't confused add* & *add once so far in this thread :-)

There was some upstream discussion to get useradd and groupadd to
busybox upstream,
as this seems to be causing problems everywhere. They told that they
are unwilling to include them as is,
but would accept a wrapper thar forward to their adduser/addgroup
implementation.

I don't know which discussion you're referring to, and much might have changed since 2016, but I read this[0] to mean the opposite: Busybox should provide the shadow-compatible *add variants, and reimplement their old add* as simple wrappers around that. That's from an upstream(ish) person.

“adduser/addgroup tend to be symlinks or wrappers, if they exist at
  all, but by and large are deprecated.  busybox should implement
applets that mimic shadow here and deprecate the old ones, if not
  throw them out. although we can probably rename & massage the
  sources in these cases”

Still, Busybox *add patches welcome, it would seem. We'll still have to deal with this for the lifetime of the older version.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2016-February/083909.html

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