potential error with adduser

[David Henderson]

Good morning Tito.  I would actually think that having accurate
information would be preferred - by most if not all.  I don't see the
point or value in having false info anywhere.

Dave


On 12/14/16, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/14/2016 09:59 PM, David Henderson wrote:
>> Hey Tito, thanks again for the reply.  I'm not sure how that example
>> is disproving my concerns. :)  It is still reflecting inaccurate
>> information in /etc/passwd.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Hi,
> in this case you want the information to be inaccurate
> as you want that particular user to have a "nonexistent"
> home dir.
>
> Ciao,
> Tito
>
>>
>> On 12/14/16, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/14/2016 03:26 PM, David Henderson wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the reply Tito!  No problem about the initial response - it
>>>> happens. :)  To me it would seem little odd to state something in one
>>>> place, but not have it in reality.  Would there be a reason to have
>>>> this mismatch of information?  It has an appearance of just being
>>>> messy and providing misinformation.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dave
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> take as example this line from /etc/passwd
>>>
>>> nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>>>
>>> this is an user that you would create with using -H:
>>>
>>> adduser -u 65534 -G nobody -h /nonexistant -H -D -s /usr/sbin/nologin
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>> Tito
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/14/16, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/14/2016 07:59 AM, Tito wrote:
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I misunderstood your question and was in a rush.
>>>>> So let's try to be more accurate this time.
>>>>> In reality we support the -H option as you correctly
>>>>> stated:
>>>>>
>>>>> -H  same as --no-create-home
>>>>> -h alternative name for home dir rather than user's name
>>>>>
>>>>> but -H --no-create-home refers only to the creation of the
>>>>> home dir (the mkdir) not to having it in /etc/passwd:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Do not create the home directory, even if it doesn't exist"
>>>>>
>>>>> so i think busybox is doing it correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the previous noise.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>> Tito
>>>>>
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