Your message dated Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:44:02 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line passwd: username -d does not create HOME_DIR when useradd(8) says it will has caused the Debian Bug report #1103523, regarding passwd: username -d does not create HOME_DIR when useradd(8) says it will. to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: passwd Version: 1:4.17.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, In useradd(8), we have the following: -d, --home-dir HOME_DIR The new user will be created using HOME_DIR as the value for the user's login directory. The default is to append the LOGIN name to BASE_DIR and use that as the login directory name. If the directory HOME_DIR does not exist, then it will be created unless the -M option is specified. The last sentence says HOME_DIR will be created, but it is not. Looking further, it appears the reason is because CREATE_HOME does not exist in /etc/login.defs I've attached a patch to remove the last sentence of above description. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii base-passwd 3.6.7 ii libacl1 2.3.2-2+b1 ii libattr1 1:2.5.2-3 ii libaudit1 1:4.0.2-2+b2 ii libbsd0 0.12.2-2 ii libc6 2.41-6 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.38-1 ii libpam-modules 1.7.0-3 ii libpam0g 1.7.0-3 ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1 ii libsemanage2 3.8.1-1 ii login.defs 1:4.17.4-1 Versions of packages passwd recommends: ii sensible-utils 0.0.24 passwd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: shadow Source-Version: 1:4.18.0-1 Upstream fixed the documentation. Best, Chris
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