[Adduser-devel] Bug#37297: Reassigning this bug

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 37297@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:56:56 +0200


tags #37297 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:31:18PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> reassign 37297 adduser
> retitle 37297 adduser: should allow forcing a local login
> thanks
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> As announced on March 30th,

That mail has somehow missed to reach my mailbox.

> I reassign this bug to the package it
> seems to belong to. I'm not really sure that the adduser package
> maintainers will be able to do comething with it, but it obviously
> does not belong to passwd.

Does it? I do not have a NIS system available, but I suspect that it
is useradd which refuses to create a local user if a NIS user exists.
adduser does not interface with any management system other than via
the useradd family of programs.

Greetings
Marc

> 
> Sorry, Marc and others, to throw my old mud at you...:-)
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