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Package: adduser
Version: 3.121
Severity: important
This is one of the bugs resulting from the policy and debian-devel
consultations that happened in March 2022.
deluser --system should not remove an account but instead lock it (same
procedure than deluser --lock, see #1008082)
There should be a configuration option in /etc/deluser.conf, for example
DELUSER_SYS_ACTION with the options "lock" and "delete", defaulting
to "lock". If set to "delete", deluser --system should actually delete
the user to give the local admin the opportunity to configure deluser to
actually get rid of pacakage accounts automatically (therefore taking
responsibility to not having given files to the account).
delgroup --system should honor DELUSER_SYS_ACTION as well, with "lock"
being a noop.
Document (README.adduser-for-packages, deluser(8)) using deluser
--system as recommendation to call in postrm purge.
Severity important since the suggested policy change depends on this
feature.
Blocks: #1006912
Blocked by: #1008082
Reason: suggested policy change, #1006912
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.155
Done: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Marc Haber <[email protected]> (supplier of updated adduser
package)
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:16:28 +0100
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.155
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Closes: 1008082 1008083 1008084 1015781 1105900 1118209 1118370 1124790 1124992
1124993 1125135 1125681
Changes:
adduser (3.155) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Marc Haber ]
* remove GROUPHOMES and LETTERHOMES configuration options
* remove SETGID_HOME configuration option
* remove deprecated QUOTAUSER configuration option
* remove debian/tests/f/cronjack.t
useradd won't allow adding that user name any more
* Depend on passwd 1:4.19.0-2. Remove cronjack.t test
(Closes: #1124993)
* Give chpasswd test values that it will accept (Closes: 1124992)
* give Matt's work on existing_*_ okay another simplifying brush-up
* po: Add Georgian translation.
Thanks to Temuri Doghonadze
* allow /etc/skel to contain files with UTF-8 file names.
This moves home dir creation to a new module AdduserCreateHomedir
Thanks to Mert Ok (Closes: #1125681)
* copy over find_unused_* functions from upstream testsuites
(Closes: #1015781)
* man page improvements for adduser.8.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason (Closes: #1124790)
* apply correcting patch from #1105900.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason (Closes: #1105900)
* write test cases to trigger #1125601
* Updated German man page translation.
Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #1125135)
* Updated Portuguese man page and program translation.
Thanks to Américo Monteiro (Closes: #1118370)
* Updated Dutch man page translation.
Thanks to Frans Spiesschaert (Closes: #1118209)
.
[ Matt Barry ]
* Add adduser --unlock [--system] and deluser --lock [--system]
(Closes: #1008082, #1008083, #1008084)
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