[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#302630: marked as done (`useradd -d` behaviour could be clarified in manpage)

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Package: passwd
Version: 4.0.3-31sarge1

useradd does not create home directories or groups.  I have found this
to be the case on i386, alpha, and mips.

o2:~# useradd -c "Some User" suser
o2:~# ls -al /home/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x   2 root staff 4096 2004-12-15 18:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  4096 2005-03-31 20:55 ..
o2:~# cat /etc/group | grep suser
o2:~#
o2:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep suser
suser:!:1000:100:Some User:/home/suser:


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Source: shadow
Source-Version: 1:4.0.13-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
shadow, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

initial-passwd-udeb_4.0.13-2_all.udeb
  to pool/main/s/shadow/initial-passwd-udeb_4.0.13-2_all.udeb
login_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
passwd_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
shadow_4.0.13-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.13-2.diff.gz
shadow_4.0.13-2.dsc
  to pool/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.13-2.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 154996 at bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:46:31 +0200
Source: shadow
Binary: login passwd initial-passwd-udeb
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1:4.0.13-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
Description: 
 initial-passwd-udeb - Set up users and passwords (udeb)
 login      - system login tools
 passwd     - change and administer password and group data
Closes: 154996 282184 316732 333993 333994 333995 334250 334870 335158 335319 335856
Changes: 
 shadow (1:4.0.13-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * The "Pouligny St-Pierre" release
   * Debian packaging fixes:
     - debian/control:
       - manpages-ja: versioned Replaces as the man pages have now been
                      removed
       - manpages-ko: versioned Replaces as the man pages have now been
                      removed
     - debian/login.defs:
       - fix a typo.
     - early release of a (currently not used) udeb to allow user creation
       and password setting to be done in D-I first stage
       Patch taken from Ubuntu. Thanks to Colin Watson for providing it.
     - debian/copyright:
       - for RMS clones sake, stop breaking Thy Holy GNU Copyright
         Closes: #334870
   * Patches to upstream man pages, not yet applied upstream:
     - debian/patches/457_document_useradd_groupadd_nis:
       Document that low level utilities will certainly never
       implement strange behaviour such as adding local users or groups with
       logins existing in external databases
       Closes: #282184
     - debian/patches/458_manpages_typos
       Fix some typos in faillog.5, chage.1, chpasswd.8
       Thanks to A Costa <agcosta at gis.net>
       Closes: #333995, #333994, #333993
     - debian/patches/459_better_document_useradd_-d
       Better document, in useradd.8, that the home_dir specified
       with -d is not created if it does not exist
       Closes: #154996
   * Debconf translation updates:
     - Norwegian Bokmal updated. Closes: #316732
     - Russian updated. Closes: #334250
     - Tagalog updated. Closes: #335158
     - Swedish updated. Closes: #335319
     - Italian updated. Closes: #335856
Files: 
 51bafa5d144215e85e76b1ace7ce353a 888 admin required shadow_4.0.13-2.dsc
 9b84915af51e920867a41c955c381ec4 313977 admin required shadow_4.0.13-2.diff.gz
 a214a11bbbd956bc00a7c38b8b802d0f 611224 admin required passwd_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
 a05db1413e0cb0172618c86c470c7ff0 561324 admin required login_4.0.13-2_i386.deb
 7368b7587dc83385d931eca7e0a084d0 57608 debian-installer standard initial-passwd-udeb_4.0.13-2_all.udeb
Package-Type: udeb

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