Hi On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:12:11PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > My rationale was that if garbage is detected, then one cannot assume to > > be able to interpret the will of the user. In this case, it's quite > > easy to just ask again, instead of going on and creating an account with > > data that can potentially contain garbage. > > Yeah, I can see that point of view. I tend to think of adduser as a > program designed to be called from maintainer scripts, and it's > usefulnss to admins is kind of secondary (sort of like update-rc.d or > something). This has led to lots of places in the code making > assumptions that if you're not actively saying no, we should proceed.
Surprisingly this questions only occurs when you add a "regular" user; in the codepath which creates system users there is no question like this. > > But ultimately, I'll accept any judgement on this: it isn't really a big > > deal. > > Fair enough - I'll think on it and see what Joerg has to say, and go > from there. I tend to agree on the point made by Enrico. The change isn't invasive and does not affect the translations. But there are several situations that adduser goes into a kind of interactive mode asking questions. We should handle all such situations consistently. Joerg -- What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife
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