Re: [adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-07 Thread Matt Barry
Hi, On Thu, 2022-07-07 at 08:48 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > > > Can you come up with a better default for users created with > > > adduser > > > --system without requesting a dedicated group? > > > > One idea worth considering, imho, is what the reporter [0] > > suggests: > > make --group t

Re: [adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:21:03 -0400, Matt Barry wrote: >On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 09:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> adduser has been putting newly created 'dynamically allocated system >> users' (adduser --system) into the nogroup group. It is also >> documented to do so. There is an ancient bug report

Re: [adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-06 Thread Matt Barry
Hi! On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 09:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > adduser has been putting newly created 'dynamically allocated system > users' (adduser --system) into the nogroup group. It is also > documented to do so. There is an ancient bug report complaining about > this, and I think this i

[adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, adduser has been putting newly created 'dynamically allocated system users' (adduser --system) into the nogroup group. It is also documented to do so. There is an ancient bug report complaining about this, and I think this is a valid complaint. However, /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-gro