Roger Leigh wrote: > We could add special behaviour to adduser to unlock the account > if it already exists when run in the postinst. However, most > postinsts wrap the call to adduser with a check for whether the > account already exists, so it would not be called without an > update to every preinst employing this strategy.
Ah, that's the piece I had forgotten about (and I should have thought more clearly about it; sorry about that). Thanks for explaining. > Providing that we have consensus on a recommended > strategy for locking and unlocking accounts which can go into policy, > I think all we need are examples for how maintainer scripts are > expected to handle account creation and locking/unlocking. Makes sense, of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110529194311.GB14141@elie
