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From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser: home beloning $user:root inset of $user:$group
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:46:48
Message-Id: CAHsXYDAy4vBFHO4AOR_bDPNwnAj0y5NeXDC7opqB-dHi0_B5YQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser: home beloning $user:root inset of $user:$group by Michael Weber
1 On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
2 > Yeah, just allow optional arguments to useradd like (useradd --help)
3 > -m, --create-home create the user's home directory
4 > -M, --no-create-home do not create the user's home directory
5
6 IIRC, enewuser allowed extra arguments to useradd previously —
7 however, this feature was removed, probably because enewuser-like
8 functions are supposed to be multi-platform. I think that -M didn't
9 work even back then, since home directory is created explicitly by
10 enewuser.
11
12 --
13 Maxim Kammerer
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