On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 11:06:07AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > I began implementing the solution to this bug just this morning. > > There are two parts to the fix: > 1. Clarify the intent of --no-create-home in the man page. > 2. Implement the new --homeless option. > > I think that #2 has become redundant given that new systems users are > now "homeless" by default. This was not the case when we first decided > to add the --homeless option.
However, we now have the problem the othe way around: If a user requests a new system user to have a home directory, it gets created as user.nogroup. I think that's wrong, file system objects should not belong to "nogroup". What group are we going to assign to a system user's home directory? (If we continue this discussion we should probably do it in a dedicated bug report or on [email protected]). > I cannot think of a situation where one would want to have a "homeless" > non-system (normal) user. Thus, I now think adding this option would be > a mistake. At the moment, neither can I think of one. My symmetry sense still cringes at the thought of not having that option. Since I don't have any rational arguments here, I'm going to rest that case for the time being ;-) Greetings Marc
