> Usermod is only called if the user does not exist and the package creates
> it. gdm, postgresql and logcheck already do this. In the example code,
> if the system user exists, then usermod is not called, which is better than
> what logcheck or postgresl currently do.
One very short notice for information: usermod recently got long
options added, similarly to useradd/userdel. This happened in passwd 4.0.13-4
(all utilities in passwd are slowly getting GNU-style long options added)
So, scripts calling it can use more readable options:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/dl10n> usermod -h
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
Options:
-c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field
-d, --home-dir HOME_DIR new login directory for the new user account
-m, --move Use -m option to move data to
the new directory
-e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE
-f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration
to INACTIVE
-g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new initial login group
-G, --groups GROUPS list of supplementary groups
-a, --append Use -a option to append the user
to the supplemental groups
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-l, --new-login LOGIN new value of the login name
-L, --lock lock the user account
-o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID
-p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password
-s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account
-u, --uid UID new UID for the user account
-U, --unlock unlock the user account
Of course, this is currently possible only in unstable....
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