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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hey all,

I've been playing with /etc/default/useradd (to set defaults for
useradd), but I wanted to use adduser as that'll setup /home and
/var/spool/mail. I figured that since adduser uses useradd it'd use
useradd's defaults (as defined in /etc/default/useradd), but no, the
adduser script uses it's own default for group and shell (my main beef
with it). So attached is a patch that I'd like to have optionally
applied to shadow so that it uses the defaults for group and shell
(other defaults should probably be added, which I can do as well if you
want).

-sandalle

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--- adduser.orig	2005-05-28 20:26:18.000000000 -0700
+++ adduser	2005-05-28 20:26:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -8,8 +8,13 @@
     NEWSER=$1
   fi
 
-  groupadd     $NEWSER
-  useradd  -m  $NEWSER  -g  $NEWSER -s /bin/bash
+  if  [  -f  /etc/default/useradd  ];  then
+    source  /etc/default/useradd  &&
+    useradd  -m  $NEWSER  -g  $GROUP -s $SHELL
+  else
+    groupadd     $NEWSER
+    useradd  -m  $NEWSER  -g  $NEWSER -s /bin/bash
+  fi  &&
 
   touch                 /var/spool/mail/$NEWSER
   chown   $NEWSER:mail  /var/spool/mail/$NEWSER