Debian Bug report logs - #515909
despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: shaul Karl <shaulkarl@yahoo.com>

To: bts debian <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:32:13 -0800 (PST)

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: normal

man page claims:

       If called with one non-option  argument  and  the  --system  
       option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same 
       name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is  
       specified,  if  a user  with  that uid already exists), adduser 
       will exit with a warning.

    and

    --quiet
       Suppress  informational  messages,  only  show  warnings  and
       errors.

However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user:

# adduser --quiet --system ftp
#


      

Message #10 received at 515909@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: shaulkarl@yahoo.com, 515909@bugs.debian.org

Cc: bts debian <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#515909: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:01:45 +0000

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This one time, at band camp, shaul Karl said:
> man page claims:
> 
>        If called with one non-option  argument  and  the  --system  
>        option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same 
>        name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is  
>        specified,  if  a user  with  that uid already exists), adduser 
>        will exit with a warning.
> 
>     and
> 
>     --quiet
>        Suppress  informational  messages,  only  show  warnings  and
>        errors.
> 
> However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user:
> 
> # adduser --quiet --system ftp

Hmm.  It's always been my understanding that that is precisely the way
that we encourage maintainer scripts to invoke adduser, and it's not an
error to invoke it with the same set of parameters a second time.  It
sounds like the docs are wrong, rather than the code, but does anyone
else disagree?

Cheers,
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Message #15 received at 515909@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de>

To: 515909@bugs.debian.org

Cc: shaul Karl <shaulkarl@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#515909: despite man page claims, a warning is not shown.

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:05:03 +0200

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:32:13AM -0800, shaul Karl wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: normal
> 
> man page claims:
> 
>        If called with one non-option  argument  and  the  --system  
>        option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same 
>        name already exists in the system uid range (or, if the uid is  
>        specified,  if  a user  with  that uid already exists), adduser 
>        will exit with a warning.
> 
>     and
> 
>     --quiet
>        Suppress  informational  messages,  only  show  warnings  and
>        errors.
> 
> However this doesn't work for me. I do have an ftp user:
> 
> # adduser --quiet --system ftp
> #
> 

I agree to Stephen, the docs are missing the description of the interaction
of these 2 settings. I will add a statement to the manpage, that --quiet
will surpress this printed warning.

Joerg

-- 
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife

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Message #20 received at 515909-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 515909-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#515909: fixed in adduser 3.111

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:19:17 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.111

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.111.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.dsc
adduser_3.111.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.tar.gz
adduser_3.111_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 515909@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:09:53 +0100
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.111
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 502150 515909 515909 517505 520586 535857 544504 545024 545475
Changes: 
 adduser (3.111) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * deluser: --backup-to implies --backup; thanks Zak Wilcox (closes: #535857)
   * deluser: sockets should also be backupped and removed (closes: #545024),
     thanks Christian Sievers for spotting.
   * allow underscores again in usernames (closes: #520586)
   * remove the "games" group from the EXTRA_GROUPS example (closes: #502150)
   * really warn if a user is already present when creating a new system user
     (closes: 515909)
   * document the interaction between --system and --close (closes: #515909)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Update po4a calls
   * Translations:
     - fr (thanks Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
       closes: #545475)
     - sv (thanks Daniel Nylander <yeager@ubuntu.com> closes: #517505)
     - zh_CN (thanks Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> closes: #544504)
   * update standards version - no changes
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