Package: adduser Version: 3.103ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist Ubuntu bug #178616 When a new user is added and the default home directory for the username already exists, adduser issues a warning and refuses to touch it. This is desirable to prevent unintentional damage from copying skel and setting uid/gid. But when a home directory has to be created beforehand and the admin wants adduser to copy skel and set uid/gid, there is no way to override the default behavior. This situation arises when the user's home directory is an individual mount on a md, lvm, or dm-crypt device. The device must be mounted first so skel is copied to the correct target but the uid/gid can't be set correctly because the user/group doesn't exist yet.
-- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers gutsy-updates APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy-backports'), (500, 'gutsy') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14ubuntu1 Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-9 change and administer password and ii perl-base 5.8.8-7ubuntu3.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis adduser recommends no packages. -- debconf information: adduser/homedir-permission: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
