* Rick Spillane (26-07-2007) > OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and > relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking > at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they > were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would > recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path > or some substitute that issues a warning. Regardless, I have placed > /etc/ under source control using mercurial so that I can roll back > files and compare differences after utilities go in and modify things.
Funny, i've discovered, how bloated adduser is yesterday, while developing my aggressive distro-cleaner. Now i'm thinking about writing patches at least for exim4 and cron to have support for ordinary useradd from passwd package. ____ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
