[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#293492: useradd: by default creates user with unspecified shell, this causes problems

[Martin Quinson]

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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:05:28AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> tags 293492 confirmed
> retitle 293492 [ALEXANDER] useradd: by default creates user with unspecif=
ied shell, this causes problems
> thanks

[...]

> The reason is empty initial value for def_shell _and_
> absense of "SHELL=3Dblahblahblah" line in the
> /etc/default/useradd file. This file simply does not
> exist on typical Debian system.

[...]

> Maybe we should just distribute a reasonable
> /etc/default/useradd [config] file with passwd?

Why couldn't we just set a non-empty initial value to def_shell? It's easy
to do, and less intrusive that adding yet another file in /etc.=20

Bye, Mt.

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