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On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. |
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While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now is |
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that the options in /etc/default/useradd are ignored. If I run |
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useradd -D it shows GROUP=100, but running useradd <username> still |
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creates a new group named after the user and puts the user into it. |
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After a little search, it seems that the USERGROUPS_ENAB directive |
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in /etc/login.defs, although not explicitly mentioning this issue, is |
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the culprit. Setting it to "no" restores the old behavior (putting the |
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new users into group "users"). |
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Alternatively, looking at the various patches, it seems that a new option |
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exists (-n), which seems to be the default when -g is not given, that is |
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not documented in the man page (to see it, "useradd --help" must be |
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used). This is another case where man pages are not in sync with changes |
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introduced by patches. Should a bug be opened for this? |
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