On 2/12/20 6:48 AM, Donovan Keohane wrote: > My apologies on the coreutils misnomer, adduser is provided by package > 'adduser' > in the Debian repos at least. There is not a direct issue with the > functional behavior of Busybox's adduser, it does properly skip the > password prompt and create an account with a disabled password. > > The issue lies in the symbolic meaning of '!' versus '*'. While both are > valid characters to create an impossible hash, '!' is used by 'passwd' to > denote a locked account. I don't think accounts with a disabled password > should be locked by default.
Again: my point is that this is imitating the default behavior of useradd, with the addendum that it will prompt for a password during account creation. Do you propose to change the default behavior of the shadow project's useradd command too? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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