Adduser devel - Jul 2006 - Bug#377774: adduser.conf(5) does not document ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS and EXTRA_GROUPS

Package: adduser
Version: 3.92
Severity: minor

The adduser.conf man page does not actually seem to document these two new
configuration variables. Indeed, while the first one is documented in the
adduser man page, the latter is not mentioned.

I also suggest adding an example of these in the default config file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (500,
''testing'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to fr_FR.UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.2      Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.16-2 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-6    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: true

This one time, at band camp, Christian Perrier said:
> The adduser.conf man page does not actually seem to document these two new
> configuration variables. Indeed, while the first one is documented in the
> adduser man page, the latter is not mentioned.
> 
> I also suggest adding an example of these in the default config file.
Both reasonable.  Will put something in as soon as I have time.
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tags #377774 confirmed pending
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:42:03AM +0100, Stephen Gran
wrote:
> Both reasonable.  Will put something in as soon as I have time.
This is already in svn.

Greetings
Marc


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