George Karaolides
2007-Sep-04 09:39 UTC
Bug#440801: adduser: Option --firstuid no longer applied to GID''s of new users'' user group
Package: adduser Version: 3.102 Severity: normal In previous Debian releases the commandline option --firstuid was also applied to the GID of the user group for a newly created user (where USERGROUPS=yes) as well as to the user''s UID. In Debian Etch, --firstuid applies only to the user''s UID. The first GID for user groups can only be set from the configuration file parameter FIRST_GID. This is inconvenient in systems where the administrator routinely creates users with user groups which they wish to keep in different UID/GID ranges. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, ''stable'') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-7 change and administer password and ii perl-base 5.8.8-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis adduser recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * adduser/homedir-permission: true
Stephen Gran
2007-Sep-04 11:13 UTC
[Adduser-devel] Bug#440801: Bug#440801: adduser: Option --firstuid no longer applied to GID''s of new users'' user group
This one time, at band camp, George Karaolides said:> In previous Debian releases the commandline option --firstuid was also > applied to the GID of the user group for a newly created user (where > USERGROUPS=yes) as well as to the user''s UID. > > In Debian Etch, --firstuid applies only to the user''s UID. The first > GID for user groups can only be set from the configuration file > parameter FIRST_GID. > > This is inconvenient in systems where the administrator routinely > creates users with user groups which they wish to keep in different > UID/GID ranges.In my mind they are semantically different, but I see that overloading --firstuid is helpful is cases where usergroups are used. How about we just catch that case, and otherwise fall back to firstgid ? Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''''`. Stephen Gran | | : :'' : sgran at debian.org | | `. `'' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/adduser-devel/attachments/20070904/08f81b38/attachment.pgp