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

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
[..]
> As far as I know, LSB is not only endorsed by Redhat.

As far as I know noone from LSB try consult this with me or Marek 
(previouse shadow maintainer).

> And, I'm afraid that at least Solaris 8 and 9 have no -r option in its
> useradd command.
> 
> I have no *BSD handy  for checking, though...
> 
> Anyway, I don't really follow your reasoning, Tomasz. Do you actually
> reject this suggestion with a kind of "this is Linux specific sh*t"
> reasoning...or do you consider it?

This is your words .. not mine :)
Mine is "this is RH specific sh*t" :>
I don't see reasons for commit RH -r option in useradd.
Injecting in LSB useradd -r option this was post factum move.
IMO use in all shadow tools -r option is *more valuable* than keep close 
to LSB in this point.
Someone from RH tries push RH specyfic standard as de facto standard .. 
nothing more.

Summarize: -r useradd option duplicates some long time avaialible shadow 
functionalities (groupadd/useradd -O option was avalaible IIRC allways in 
shadow but was not documented).

kloczek
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