Bug#1020615: adduser: README.Debian doesn't seem to exist

Olaf van der Spek

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Sep 24, 2022, 6:30:03 AM9/24/22

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Package: adduser
Version: 3.129
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: olafv...@gmail.com

Hi,

> See /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian for detailed reasoning.

$ cat /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian
cat: /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian: No such file or directory

$ l /usr/share/doc/adduser
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27798 Sep 5 21:57 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12317 Sep 5 21:57 copyright
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 13:29 examples
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 988 Sep 5 21:57 NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044 Sep 5 21:57 TODO

Greetings,

Olaf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii passwd 1:4.11.1+dfsg1-2

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii cron 3.0pl1-149
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b2
ii perl 5.34.0-5

-- debconf information:
adduser/homedir-permission: true
adduser/title:

Marc Haber

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Sep 26, 2022, 9:30:04 AM9/26/22

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 03:18:39PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Thanks for spotting this. Fixed in git. MR 65 created.

In the mean time, find the information on salsa:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/blob/master/debian/README

Greetings
Marc

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Marc Haber

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Sep 26, 2022, 9:30:04 AM9/26/22

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Control: tag -1 confirmed

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > See /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian for detailed reasoning.
>
> $ cat /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian
> cat: /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian: No such file or directory
>
> $ l /usr/share/doc/adduser
> total 56
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27798 Sep 5 21:57 changelog.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12317 Sep 5 21:57 copyright
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 13:29 examples
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 988 Sep 5 21:57 NEWS.Debian.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044 Sep 5 21:57 TODO

Oooooooooops!

Thanks for spotting this. Fixed in git. MR 65 created.

Olaf van der Spek

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Sep 26, 2022, 1:30:04 PM9/26/22

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Op ma 26 sep. 2022 om 15:19 schreef Marc Haber
<mh+debian...@zugschlus.de>:

>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 03:18:39PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Thanks for spotting this. Fixed in git. MR 65 created.
>
> In the mean time, find the information on salsa:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/blob/master/debian/README

Some feedback / typos:

> Sadly, currently (summer 2022, adduser 3.125) locking and unlocking accounts it not well supported yet.

is? not

> Debian pacakges.

packages?

> to add the Desired support

desired?

> regular user's home directory to 0700 while keeping
the mode permissive setting

more?

> has oscillated back in forth

and?

> distributions, none of which setting the sgid bit on home directories to
1 (research done in July 2022).

set*

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Olaf

Marc Haber

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Sep 26, 2022, 3:00:03 PM9/26/22

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 07:19:54PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Some feedback / typos:

Thank you very much! This feedback is greatly appeciated.

All of it committed to git.