Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.51
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
As part of the buster -> bullseye upgrade, /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}.org are
created, but there is no documentation as to why
Can we have some documentation as to what these are for, why they were made and
what they are used for (if anything)?
(Happy to help write this, but I don't know the answers. eg, can they be
deleted?)
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages base-passwd depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii libdebconfclient0 0.260
Versions of packages base-passwd recommends:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
base-passwd suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
base-passwd/user-remove: true
base-passwd/user-move: true
base-passwd/group-move: true
base-passwd/user-change-shell: true
base-passwd/group-change-gid: true
base-passwd/group-remove: true
base-passwd/user-change-home: true
base-passwd/user-change-gid: true
base-passwd/group-add: true
base-passwd/user-change-gecos: true
base-passwd/user-change-uid: true
base-passwd/user-add: true
