[Adduser-devel] Bug#298879: Re: Bug#298879: adduser: manpage should mention /etc/login.defs

[Marc Haber]

tags #298879 moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:22:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:56:05PM +0100, Gerhard Schrenk wrote:
> > * Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> [2005-03-10 15:31]:
> > > I believe that you have an issue with useradd, which is the back end
> > > application that adduser calls to do the actual work.
> > > 
> > > Please verify that the issue you're reporting does not happen with a
> > > direct call to useradd.
> > 
> > I don't believe that I invoke useradd.
> 
> If you use adduser, then you use useradd. Adduser doesn't do any of
> the grunt work itself, it hands the work off to useradd. And it looks
> like useradd honors settings from /etc/login.defs.

The information requested has not been delivered. Closing this bug on
2005-07-31 if if doesn't come in until then.

Greetings
Marc

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