On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:53:03PM +0200, Tobias Wolter wrote: > Though I was a bit confused -- point 10.2 of the policy manual > regulates that no package except base-passwd should modify > /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, ... > > Does this only cover modifying directly, or is usage of adduser, etc., > disencouraged, too?
adduser is fine, although in maintainer scripts you should only use it with the --system flag. Read down to 10.2.2 and you'll see 'adduser --system' mentioned explicitly. 10.2.1 is indeed just talking about direct modification. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
