This one time, at band camp, Sven Mueller said: > The warning introduced to fix #159345 is also shown when adding system > users. This does rarely make sense. An example is the cyrus-common-2.2 > package (but I would guess that there are others that act accordingly), > which contains the /var/lib/cyrus directory, which is later (once the > user cyrus was created) assigned to that user. > > Currently, adduser unconditionally displays the following warning while > the cyrus user is created by postinst: > > Warning: that home directory does not belong to the user you are > currently creating > > As one of the cyrus-imapd packagers, I have two options to avoid showing > that warning to the user installing cyrus-common-2.2: > 1) Don't include the /var/lib/cyrus directory in the package. > Drawback: dpkg doesn't know the directory belongs to that package. > 2) Redirect STDERR of adduser to /dev/null. > Drawback: True errors of adduser aren't shown to the user anymore. > So neither option seems to be the right one. > > Therefor, I see two options to resolve our bug #378518, and both would > involve changes to the adduser package: > 1) Make adduser suppress that warning when creating system users. > 2) Add a commandline option to adduser to suppress that particular > warning or all warnings. > > I kindly ask you to implement one of those. > > I thought about submitting this as a wishlist bug. However, since there > are probably other packages suffering from the same "regression" (a > bogus warning where there was no warning before), I decided against > that. Feel free to change the severity as you like.
Adding --ignore-uid-mismatch or some such would be easy enough to do, but it seems like the right thing to do here is to just make your scripts use --no-create-home. This will skip this code path altogether, and seems like the right thing to do if you ship the home directory in the package anyway. This is what I do in my packages that create users and also have the directory in the deb. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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