[Adduser-devel] Bug#472820: adduser: Need override when home directory exists

[Jeff Hanson]

I haven't had time in the last three years to learn Perl yet but it's
on my list.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:58:37PM -0400, Jeff Hanson wrote:
>> This situation arises when the
>> user's home directory is an individual mount on a md, lvm, or dm-crypt
>> device. The device must be mounted first so skel is copied to the
>> correct target but the uid/gid can't be set correctly because the
>> user/group doesn't exist yet.
>
> Valid point. I will accept a patch.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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