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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting 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

And I'd want to submit this to the shadow devs as well so that adduser
works properly for everyone. :)

-sandalle

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