adduser's adduser.local functionality much less useful than it might be

[Patrick Gosling]

Binary package hint: adduser

The adduser script is documented to call /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local if that exists and is executable, "after the user account is set up", but only when adduser is called without the --system or --group options.

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/sbin/addgroup.local
/usr/local/sbin/addsysuser.local
/usr/local/sbin/addsysgroup.local
as appropriate, that would be wonderful.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.