[Pkg-shadow-devel] user directory in non-existing path

[Peter Vrabec]

Hi all,


If "useradd -b /non-existing -m foo"  creates a new user and path to user's 
homedir contains non-existing directories, the command fails.

Is such a behavior OK? I'm not sure. Man page is saying

"
-b, --base-dir BASE_DIR
      The default base directory for the system if -d HOME_DIR is not 
specified.  BASE_DIR is concatenated with the account name to define the home 
directory. If the -m option is not used, BASE_DIR must exist.
...
-m, --create-home
      Create the user's home directory if it does not exist. ....
"

My assumption would be that non-existing directory is created.

thnx. for clarification,
Peter

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Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782515