Re: problems with manual page usermod.8 and useradd.8

2018-02-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:12:44PM +0100, MarkusHiereth wrote: > Hello, > > when updating the German translations of the shadow package, I > encountered strange things in the documentation. For example an option > --non-unique for the commands useradd

Re: problems with manual page usermod.8 and useradd.8

2018-02-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:09:34PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I have seen this used on old UNIX or BSD systems to create a second root > account. For example, the standard default root account is set to use > some old sh or csh implementation. Somebody installs bash (probably in > /usr/loca

Re: problems with manual page usermod.8 and useradd.8

2018-02-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 22 February 2018 at 21:12, MarkusHiereth wrote: > Hello, > > when updating the German translations of the shadow package, I > encountered strange things in the documentation. For example an option > --non-unique for the commands useradd and usermod. With the first, the > system administrator i

Re: problems with manual page usermod.8 and useradd.8

2018-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 22:12:44 (+0100), MarkusHiereth wrote: > Hello, > > when updating the German translations of the shadow package, I > encountered strange things in the documentation. For example an option > --non-unique for the commands useradd and usermod. With the first, the > system admini

Re: problems with manual page usermod.8 and useradd.8

2018-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:12:44PM +0100, MarkusHiereth wrote: > > Has anybody an idea about the purpose of such an option? > Hi Markus, I have seen this used on old UNIX or BSD systems to create a second root account. For example, the standard default root account is set to use some old sh or c