[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1099086: might be less verbose in calling adduser

[Marc Haber]

Package: dbus-system-bus-common
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

dbus-system-bus-common's postinst makes relly sure that adduser behaves
policy compliant:

if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
	in_sysroot adduser --system \
		--quiet \
		--home /nonexistent \
		--no-create-home \
		--disabled-password \
		--group "$MESSAGEUSER"
fi

That is kind of redundant since system users already get a disabled
password, home /nonexistent and /nonexistent never gets created. So, I
think that adduser --system --group "$MESSAGEUSER" will already do what
is policy compliant.

Please consider simplifying your adduser call, or maybe migrate to
systemd-sysusers which might actually fit the systemd/dbus universe
better.

Greetings
Marc

P.S.: The explicit call to --no-create-home has triggered 1099073 in
adduser which we will fix.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.15-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dbus-system-bus-common depends on:
ii  adduser  3.141

dbus-system-bus-common recommends no packages.

dbus-system-bus-common suggests no packages.

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