Hi,
On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 09:31:19PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
The adduser(8) man page (LOGGING section) lists message priorities as:
crit, error, warning, info, debug, trace
The actual accepted values in Debian::AdduserLogging::numeric_msglevel()
are:
trace, debug, info, warn, err/error, fatal
Thanks for spotting this.
Two mismatches:
- "warning" should be "warn" ("warning" causes die())
- "crit" should be "fatal" ("crit" causes die())
Would this fix it?
diff --git a/doc/adduser.8 b/doc/adduser.8
index c4c8f63..c9ad708 100644
--- a/doc/adduser.8
+++ b/doc/adduser.8
@@ -555,9 +555,9 @@ Every message that \fBadduser\fR prints has a priority value
assigned by the authors.
This priority can not be changed at run time.
Available priority values are
-\fBcrit\fR,
+\fBfatal\fR,
\fBerror\fR,
-\fBwarning\fR,
+\fBwarn\fR,
\fBinfo\fR,
\fBdebug\fR,
and
The config file comments in /etc/adduser.conf are correct. The man page
appears to use syslog priority names (from the logmsglevel() translation
map) rather than the config-facing names.
That's what happens when you write the docs first. Sorry.
Greetings
Marc
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