potential error with adduser

[Tito]

On 12/13/2016 04:46 PM, David Henderson wrote:
> Good morning gang!  Working with the 'adduser' applet and noticed that
> when specifying the '-H' parameter the /etc/passwd file still gets a
> home directory value (which doesn't exist in the file system).  Is
> this an error?  If no home directory was to be made, shouldn't that
> value be blank?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

Hi,
from man adduser on debian:
"adduser will create a home directory subject to DHOME, GROUPHOMES, and 
LETTERHOMES.  The home directory can be overridden from the command line 
with the --home option"
In fact we don't support DHOME, GROUPHOMES, and LETTERHOMES but
use only the user name to create the home directory unless
the name is specified on the command line with the -H option.

	/* create string for $HOME if not specified already */
		pw.pw_dir = xasprintf("/home/%s", argv[0]);

We don't support  --no-create-home option at the moment
but i think it would be easy to add.

Ciao,
Tito