Bug 1209019

Confirming on Plasma 5

I'd reocmmend reporting this upstream @ bugs.kde.org

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #2)
> I'd reocmmend reporting this upstream @ bugs.kde.org

I would imagine upstream has left this by default as to allow the package maintainer to set it for their distro? Especially since the only thing in the README espouses that it was written for different platforms like Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. 

I'm not even sure why kuser.kcfg is being installed as part of the package? It's a build time configuration that is compiled by `kconfig_compiler4` and then never touched by the program itself (I checked with strace -e open) 

To fix the problem the following file must be edited: 


@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
     <entry name="shell" type="String">
       <label>Shell</label>
       <whatsthis>This option allows you to select the shell which will be the default for new users.</whatsthis>
+      <default>/bin/bash</default>
     </entry>
     <entry name="homepath" type="String">
       <label>Home path template</label>


Which is then compiled and results in the following (during the build): 


ku_prefs.cpp:  itemShell = new KConfigSkeleton::ItemString( currentGroup(), QLatin1String( "shell" ), mShell, QLatin1String( "/bin/bash" ) );


I have built with the following and confirmed that when doing so, a default shell is configured properly if one is not already present. 

Again, I'm not sure why this is being included with the package install either:


%{_kde4_datadir}/config.kcfg/%{name}.kcfg


can you explain? 

It's my opinion that the policy for this package should be that the maintainer synchronizes the defaults in kuser.kcfg with /etc/default/useradd, so that there are no disparities between someone creating a user with either. (Yes I understand that they could diverge if someone configured one and not the other, but we're after sane defaults no?)

Comment #3 looks lovely, something we can certainly adopt, I'll look into it.

ksystemlog-16.04.0-1.fc24 kcron-16.04.0-1.fc24 kuser-16.04.0-2.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-faf7cca741

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-ed48efbccf

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-9edd86eb1a

kcron-16.04.0-1.fc24, ksystemlog-16.04.0-1.fc24, kuser-16.04.0-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-faf7cca741

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-ed48efbccf

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-9edd86eb1a

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

kuser-16.04.0-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

kcron-16.04.0-1.fc24, ksystemlog-16.04.0-1.fc24, kuser-16.04.0-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.