Re: Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jason Franklin writes: > I suppose a note in the documentation could clarify things for users who > may not be aware of these other usage scenarios. Yeah, that occurred to me after sending my message and indeed would be a great idea. That may be the right way to close this bug (with a

Re: Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Jason Franklin
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 19:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > This seems to be a misunderstanding of the purpose of --no-create-home. > This option does not say that the user does not have a home directory, > but that it should not be created by adduser, and instead will be create > later by some

Re: Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Jason Franklin
On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 10:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > The documentation says simply: > >--no-create-home > Do not create the home directory, even if it doesn't exist. > > Passing --no-create-home therefore does not *change* the home directory, > and should not change the

Re: Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 12:51:56PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote: > Greetings: > > I am a developer who is new to making contributions to Debian. Most of > my work so far has been focused on making improvements to the "adduser" > package. Of course, bug triage is one of the first things on which

Re: Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jason Franklin writes: > I am a developer who is new to making contributions to Debian. Most of > my work so far has been focused on making improvements to the "adduser" > package. Of course, bug triage is one of the first things on which I am > trying to show progress. > On the relevant BTS

Question on the use of "/nonexistent"

2021-12-18 Thread Jason Franklin
Greetings: I am a developer who is new to making contributions to Debian. Most of my work so far has been focused on making improvements to the "adduser" package. Of course, bug triage is one of the first things on which I am trying to show progress. On the relevant BTS page, I came across