Bug#515909: [Adduser-devel] Bug#515909: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:32:13AM -0800, shaul Karl wrote: Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: normal man page claims: If called with one non-option argument and the --system option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is specified, if a user with that uid already exists), adduser will exit with a warning. and --quiet Suppress informational messages, only show warnings and errors. However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user: # adduser --quiet --system ftp # I agree to Stephen, the docs are missing the description of the interaction of these 2 settings. I will add a statement to the manpage, that --quiet will surpress this printed warning. Joerg -- What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife pgpl3dsvMzQmi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#515909: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.
Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: normal man page claims: If called with one non-option argument and the --system option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is specified, if a user with that uid already exists), adduser will exit with a warning. and --quiet Suppress informational messages, only show warnings and errors. However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user: # adduser --quiet --system ftp # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515909: [Adduser-devel] Bug#515909: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.
This one time, at band camp, shaul Karl said: man page claims: If called with one non-option argument and the --system option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is specified, if a user with that uid already exists), adduser will exit with a warning. and --quiet Suppress informational messages, only show warnings and errors. However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user: # adduser --quiet --system ftp Hmm. It's always been my understanding that that is precisely the way that we encourage maintainer scripts to invoke adduser, and it's not an error to invoke it with the same set of parameters a second time. It sounds like the docs are wrong, rather than the code, but does anyone else disagree? Cheers, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :sg...@debian.org | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
