sean finney <sean...@seanius.net> writes: > I was always given the impression that adduser and friends "wanted" to > be able to handle non-local accounts, but nobody had ever extended it to > do so? So I think it's a bit shaky to make that assumption.
> But if we specifically limit the scope for users/groups being locked to > "only if they're in /etc/passwd,/etc/group" then yes I think that the > recommendation makes sense. But then we probably ought to also have > some boilerplate examples of exactly how it should be done. If that's really a future intention, maybe add a no-op --local flag to adduser that says not to do that, should it ever have been added? > On that note, I just read over 9.2 and see we don't have anything about > the right behavior for adding users/groups there either, and you have > similar problems along those lines. Actually it seems that 9.2 as a > whole could use a bit of a facelift :) Yes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwpp51ed....@windlord.stanford.edu
