control: tag -1 +moreinfo [2016-12-15 09:16] Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> > > part text/plain 1572 > Package: dh-sysuser > Version: 1.3 > Severity: wishlist > > It would be great to have more documentation about how this package > works. I tried looking at the homepage, which is just the git > repository and couldn't find anything. > > It's only when I installed the package that i noticed the > dh_sysuser(1) manpage. But then it seems a bit short and only yields > more questions: > > 1. are users created with adduser? are dependencies injected > properly? > 2. how are they created? what is the password? '*'? what about the > shell? > 3. is a group created? if not, what group is the user part of? > 4. what are the permissions of the home directory? in my use case, it > should be 750 - should i be handling this myself? how do i know > what home directory was used if i don't specify it?
Why all this is significant? User is created by `adduser' with all defaults, except homepage (optional), because it is only needed for `su _foo_user /some/scary/programm'. > For example, I would recommend mentionning that most of the work is > done by the sysuser-helper binary. It is implementation detail. > I would also mention the special way /nonexistent is handled and add > an EXAMPLES section for quick copy-pasting. Can you provide snippet? Or, better, patch? -- X-Web-Site: https://sinsekvu.github.io | Note that I process my email in batch, Accept-Languages: eo,ru,en | at most once every 24 hours. If matter Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff | is urgent, you have my phone number.
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