Adduser devel - Oct 2005 - Reassign this bug

reassing 57280 adduser
thanks

The analysis of this bug report shows that the user reporting it wants
to have the choice, possibly during an initial install, to either use
user groups or add all users to the default "users" group.

passwd, while reconfigured, relies on adduser for this. One solution
could be a debconf-based configurable option to either use "users"
groups or the "users" group by default with adduser.

I would give a quite low priority to this. After all, the creation of
a first user can be skipped in new installs...



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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Christian Perrier
wrote:
> The analysis of this bug report shows that the user reporting it wants
> to have the choice, possibly during an initial install, to either use
> user groups or add all users to the default "users" group.
> 
> passwd, while reconfigured, relies on adduser for this. One solution
> could be a debconf-based configurable option to either use
"users"
> groups or the "users" group by default with adduser.
> 
> I would give a quite low priority to this. After all, the creation of
> a first user can be skipped in new installs...
This is opening a can of worms which might lead to the requirement of
having all adduser.conf options be settable through debconf. I''d
rather not do this with the current adduser stuff and leave that to
the rewrite which is necessary anyway.

Greetings
Marc

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> This is opening a can of worms which might lead to the requirement of
> having all adduser.conf options be settable through debconf. I''d
> rather not do this with the current adduser stuff and leave that to
> the rewrite which is necessary anyway.

Actually, no problem. I see no very high priority for this....just
something to be kept in mind somewhere.