adduser's adduser.local functionality much less useful than it might be
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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adduser (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: adduser
The adduser script is documented to call /usr/local/
In practice, all three cases of "--system", "--group" and "--system and --group" would benefit from calling adduser.local .
In particular, if you have any slightly non-standard account management setup, it is vital to know when a package manager has created a new system user or new group.
It would of course not be appropriate to cause adduser.local to suddenly change behaviour; people may be relying on it not being called for "system" users or groups.
However, if each of the three other cases were to call
/usr/local/
/usr/local/
/usr/local/
as appropriate, that would be wonderful.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.