Bug 102518
| Summary: | useradd man page bug | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Michael Redinger <michael.redinger> |
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-10-30 08:45:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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For 3.9 we are looking only for critical and performance related bugs |
The useradd man page says that the default is to not create a user's home directory: -m (...) The default is to not create the directory and to not copy any files. That is obviousely wrong. What really happens is described right below for -M (-M is included in the shadow-4.0.3-redhat.patch): -M The user home directory will not be created, even if the system wide settings from /etc/login.defs is to create home dirs. So maybe add the note about /etc/login.defs to -m, too? (CREATE_HOME is not set in the original package, so the current behaviour of -m is Red Hat specific.)