Bug#333706: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#333706: useradd lacks -r option

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Matt Taggart wrote:

> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.12-6
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> The LSB specifies the existence of a useradd '-r' option,
> 
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec//booksets/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/useradd.html

-r options is used in useradd from Solaris and *BSD for specyfy NSS 
repository.
Equivalent of -r options prior to shadow shadow-4.0.10 was "-O GID_MIN=1 
-O UID_MAX=1" (in shadow shadow-4.0.11 undocumented -O options was renamed 
to -K which is similar to -K in Solaris useradd).
Pushing -r option without consultation it is RH people "job".

> I have commented more on this issue at,
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/2005/10/msg00010.html
> 
> Other distros have fixed this but none have pushed the fix upstream. I
> have attached Fedora/RedHat's patch against 4.0.7 from the source rpm
> at,
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.7-9.src.rpm
> 
> The patch does more than just add '-r', it adds '-M' (not in the LSB) and maybe other stuff.

-M options it is next stupid RH move. Functionality -M options as same -r 
options is avalaible by using -K CREATE_HOME=no.
All without patching shadow code.

kloczek
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