Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
The following are several minor ideas for improvement.
Some of them are really pedantic so be warned ;)
1) When creating a user and the homedir already exists, adduser gives
a warning, that it does not copy /etc/skel.
It should also warn that it does not delete/create anything else and
that it does not apply the chosen DIR_MODE.
2) DIR_MODE is either set to 0755 or 0751 (via debconf).
I'd suggest (for reasons of security) to:
- change 0751 to 0751
- make this non-sys-wide-readable the default in debconf
(This would not really break things, as users would notice very soon,
if other could no longer access their homedirs)
3) DIR_MODE says "directories created will have the specified
permissions as umask"
I think this should not affect ALL directories (e.g. those below
/etc/skel) that are created, but just the user-home-dir itself.
It should neither affect any /home/group/(user) or /home/u/(user) dirs.
This is especially important if SETGID_HOME=yes
4) SETGID_HOME description in manpage and conf-template:
The information on behaviour before 3.13 is purely historical and
probably of little use in the manpage/config-documentation.
The default change should only be listed in the package's NEWS.Debian file.
It's however ok, to mention the bad side-effects (and perhaps which they are)
5) QUOTAUSER
As adduser uses edquota if set, the package should perhaps recommend
or suggest the quota package.
6) SKEL_IGNORE_REGEX
Don't these files always end in .dpkg-* so a . or \. could be added to
the default regex to tighten it as far as possible?
7) ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS
For all other boolean settings you use yes/no.... but here 0/non-0
Perhaps this should be aligned.
8) For all values, the defaults are explicitly set (if not changed) in
the config file via foo=bar, expect for
#ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS=1
#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9]*\$"
(NAME_REGEX also differs from the value in the manpage with the \
9) It's not described what happens if both GROUPHOMES and LETTERHOMES
are activated.
8) Documentation in mapgage and config file:
These should be identical,.. IMHO,...and I think the documentation in
the config template is sometimes incorrect or at least misleading.
Just some notes on the manpage:
-SKEL_IGNORE_REGEX: It's not /etc/skel, but SKEL .
-EXTRA_GROUPS: The groups are ONLY added if ADD_EXTRAGROUP is true OR
if that parameter is used.
If you want I could write a revised version of the manpage/template
with some more perfectionisms ;)
Regards,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration
management sy
ii passwd 1:4.1.4.2-1 change and administer
password and
ii perl-base 5.10.0-24 minimal Perl system
adduser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4 Using libc functions for
internati
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-24 Core Perl modules
-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: false
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