On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:00:32PM +0000, Tom H wrote: > I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d". > > If your assumption that useradd short options should be understood > adduser, isn't this a bug?
I don't know. But the behaviour of adduser and useradd is consistent in this regard: # userdel test # useradd -d /var/a/b/c test Creating mailbox file: File exists useradd: cannot create directory /var/a/b/c # userdel test # adduser -d /var/a/b/c test Creating mailbox file: File exists adduser: cannot create directory /var/a/b/c If that's a bug, it's sure a longstanding one - I've reproduced it on RHEL5 (which has userland from 2006). Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131126155459.GA32303@x101h
