Bug#399992: [Adduser-devel] Bug#399992: adduser: misleading warning message

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Sat Feb 10 13:10:19 CET 2007


This one time, at band camp, Alexander Klauer said:
> Am Donnerstag 23 November 2006 11:48 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > I'd prefer changing the error message to "Warning: The home dir you
> > specified cannot be accessed", with "dir does not exist" being a
> > special case (a not existing directory is inaccessible).
> 
> Fine. Thank you!

I have changed it in svn, but do not want to upload yet, so as not to
change strings during the freeze.  The new error message will say:
Warning: The home dir you specified cannot be accessed: 
followed by the reason (does not exist, not a directory, can't access,
etc).

Take care,
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