On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 05:22:19PM +0200, Timo Lindfors wrote: > I just noticed that if I create a user from Gnome/Settings/Users they will > have their shell set to /usr/sbin/nologin. The user can login but cannot > start a terminal. This occurs in a clean sid VM but does not occur in a > clean Debian 11 VM. > > It seems the UI calls accounts-daemon over dbus and that then runs > > adduser --quiet --disabled-login --gecos username username > > in both cases. > > Is this a separate bug that should be reported against some package?
Yes, that's the UI's error, it just gets what it asks for: A user that cannot login. > Oh and btw, the man page in 3.130 seems to have some syntax issue since > groff markup is shown to the user: > > $ man adduser | grep fP > duse's scope. --disabled-login will additional set the shell > to /usr/sbin/nologin/fP. Valid That was fixed in git last week, thanks for spotting this. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
