Bug#762275: Solution

[Michael Biebl]

Am 27.09.2014 um 15:58 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 27.09.2014 um 15:09 schrieb Michal Sojka:
>> Yes, that's right. It's a annoying that --quiet suppress the error
>> message in this case.
> 
> Agreed. I think quiet should suppress non-fatal warnings/errors only,
> but not messages which will cause it to exit with non-zero return code.
> 
> We added --quiet only because users were concerned / confused when they
> saw messages as reported in #759175, which are non-fatal.
> 
> Michal, do you mind filing a bug report against adduser?

Especially since man adduser(8) has:

--quiet
       Suppress informational messages, only show warnings and errors.

So that clearly sounds like a bug.

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