Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.3-30.8 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/useradd
Short description: useradd -u 600 -c "Test" -m test does not specify shell in /etc/passwd. This creates different problems later.
Long description:
I debugged for several evenings why vim complains on startup about no shell and konsole starts shell with too simple prompt (sh-2.05$). It appears that recently useradd has not been adding default shell anymore on new user creation. This creates confusion and is against the principle of least surprise - applications and users do expect some shell specification.
IMHO it should add at least a /bin/sh to not confuse applications like bash (empty SHELL) and vim (epmty SHELL gives error message on each file open).
Better yes, it should add /bin/bash as default if no shell is specified. Not because everyone should use bash or because it would be somehow better than any other $SHELL but because Debian has a sensible default configuration for bash that is userfriendly (things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] prompt etc).
If any other shell is wanted, it's specified anyway using useradd -s or useradd -D -s and I can now specify useradd -D -s /bin/bash to cure my problem. This is not the problem, the problem is the selection of sensible default behaviour out of the box. And IMHO even a low-level program like useradd should still follow it.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-rc2 Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii login 1:4.0.3-30.8 System login tools
-- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: passwd/username: passwd/password-empty: passwd/md5: false passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: passwd/user-fullname: passwd/make-user: true
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