[Adduser-devel] Bug#516285: Bug#516285: Bug#516285: It seems to accept anything for 'yes'

[Joerg Hoh]

Hi

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:12:11PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > 
> > My rationale was that if garbage is detected, then one cannot assume to
> > be able to interpret the will of the user.  In this case, it's quite
> > easy to just ask again, instead of going on and creating an account with
> > data that can potentially contain garbage.
> 
> Yeah, I can see that point of view.  I tend to think of adduser as a
> program designed to be called from maintainer scripts, and it's
> usefulnss to admins is kind of secondary (sort of like update-rc.d or
> something).  This has led to lots of places in the code making
> assumptions that if you're not actively saying no, we should proceed.

Surprisingly this questions only occurs when you add a "regular" user; in
the codepath which creates system users there is no question like this.

> > But ultimately, I'll accept any judgement on this: it isn't really a big
> > deal.
> 
> Fair enough - I'll think on it and see what Joerg has to say, and go
> from there.

I tend to agree on the point made by Enrico. The change isn't invasive and
does not affect the translations.
But there are several situations that adduser goes into a kind of
interactive mode asking questions.

We should handle all such situations consistently.

Joerg

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