[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1023132: Passwd tool useradd no longer copies /etc/skel to newly created user.

Markus W. Frei m.w.frei at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 15:06:31 GMT 2022


Package: passwd

Debian Testing

Hi,

A Debian update for Debian Testing has broken the "useradd" utility (in 
/sbin/useradd, I don't know which package it belongs to). The problem is 
that the /etc/skel folder is ignored no matter what settings are used, 
so the new user only gets the vanilla setup, & not the specially 
prepared one.

A previous version of this tool (3rd march, '22) worked fine, & if I 
replace the new file with the old one on Debian testing, it also works 
fine. I am using Calamares to install an adapted version of Debian 
Testing, & Calamares uses "useradd" to create user accounts during the 
installation (one reason is that options can be given to the tool, which 
the "adduser" tool doesn't support). So I need "useradd" to work properly.

Thanks for fixing this as soon as possible.



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