Control: tags -1 wontfix thanks On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:39:29PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > The analysis of this bug report shows that the user reporting it wants > > to have the choice, possibly during an initial install, to either use > > user groups or add all users to the default "users" group. > > > > passwd, while reconfigured, relies on adduser for this. One solution > > could be a debconf-based configurable option to either use "users" > > groups or the "users" group by default with adduser. > > > > I would give a quite low priority to this. After all, the creation of > > a first user can be skipped in new installs... > > This is opening a can of worms which might lead to the requirement of > having all adduser.conf options be settable through debconf. I'd > rather not do this with the current adduser stuff and leave that to > the rewrite which is necessary anyway.
Tagging this wontfix. The adduser maintainers have decided to deprecate and eventually remove the debconf part from adduser, hence there will be no work going into this. Greetings Marc
