On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote:
> Cool. It is already fixed.
>
> (a moment later)
> # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser
> debconf: package "adduser" is not installed or does not use debconf
>
> | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version
> | Version: 3.37
>
> # dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version
> Version: 3.11.1
>
> Guess I'll have to wait a while for that (I have a potato system).
One thing you can do right now is to create a script
/usr/local/sbin/adduser.local to run chmod on the newly-created home
directory, so that you don't have to do it manually each time you make a
new user. I use mine to send a "welcome" message, but it looks like it
would fill your needs as well.
>From the adduser(8) manpage:
If the file /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local exists, it will
be executed after the user account has been set up in
order to do any local setup. The arguments passed to
adduser.local are:
username uid gid home-directory
Hope this helps,
Aaron
--
So: My point is that [Microsoft] may have a ton of money and be more
vicious than a junkyard dog, and have a stranglehold on dimwitted IS
managers, but they're just not very _competent_.
-- Rick Moen, on macosx-for-users
