[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#858246: base: Does not detect users on mounted /home partition

[Steve McIntyre]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 add support for importing users from other systems

jyn514 at gmail.com wrote:
>Package: base
>Severity: normal
>Tags: d-i
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I recently installed Debian from an Ubuntu host. I use a mounted home partition for just these scenarios.
>Debian installed and booted properly, but on the (graphical) login screen, did not show my user
>account made with Ubuntu. Ubuntu similarly does not recognize the default user account installed by
>Debian. Both operating systems function well individually.
>The strangest part of this is that /home clearly shows both folders when I access it in files, but
>does not recognize the folder as a user in the Users application or login screen.

Hi,

The data in home directories is just data on the disk; the actual user
account/authentication data is kept elsewhere in the system, and that
is never automatically imported. It should be feasible to write a
program to do that, but I don't think that's something that's a
priority for the Debian team.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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