Comment 11 for bug 23501

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:52:16 +0100
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: Marc Haber <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: adduser: --disabled-passwd and --disabled-login non-functional

found 332815 3.72
thanks

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:25:39PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> In the experimental versions of adduser, the options --disabled-login
> and --disabled-passwd have been inadvertently renamed to
> --disabled_login and --disabled_password. This is a bug.
>
> They will be renamed back in 3.71.

The "disabled password" option used to be --disabled-password, not
--disabled-passwd. passwd.config expects --disabled-password (and
adduser(8) still documents it), and as a result this change breaks new
installations. Please rename it back to --disabled-password.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]