Hi,

that ought to do it :)

Thanks!

> On 7 Apr 2026, at 09.04, Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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