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Bug 156426 - gnome system tools should use the 'adduser' application instead of 'useradd' application
gnome system tools should use the 'adduser' application instead of 'useradd' ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: users-admin
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Carlos Garnacho
Carlos Garnacho
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-25 21:22 UTC by Robert Taylor
Modified: 2006-05-26 11:30 UTC
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Description Robert Taylor 2004-10-25 21:22:14 UTC 
- when creating a new user account, it would be nice to be able to setup some
default configurations about how to create user folders for example (say have
the permissions on all user foldert be set to 700 for example).

- perhaps gst should use the adduser package, as the adduser.conf file indicates
that the it more flexible than the useradd package.  at the very least it lets
you set the default permissions for all new user accounts created.

- on debian, even though the man page says there is supposed to be a file in
/etc/default called user add, there isn't one.  so it seems that some useradd
application specific configurations are not possible.

- request to change gst usage of useradd to adduser
Comment 1 Sivan Greenberg 2005-10-23 22:45:30 UTC 
shouldn't this bug be against the system-tool-backends rather then the
users-admin module? AFAICT this is the module which actually calls the
underlying unix tool to do the job.
Comment 2 Carlos Garnacho 2006-05-26 11:30:24 UTC 
adduser & co support has been added in CVS HEAD, thanks for the bug report