Bug 158574

Summary: adduser rewrites existing dot-files with /etc/skel files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Aldy Hernandez 2005-05-23 18:13:29 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Adduser will rewrite *existing* files in /home/USER from the skeletons in /etc/skel.  This is especially dangerous if /home directories are NFS mounted (home is already populated).

For example, imagine I am adding user "foo" on a new machine that needs /etc/passwd populated.  If this machine has foo's home directory NFS mounted (or already present), it will overwrite any files there with the versions in /etc/skel.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.0.3-57

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create /home/foo with .bashrc.
2. adduser foo ...
3. See how /home/foo/.bashrc was rewritten.
  

Expected Results:  adduser should not overwrite existing files

Additional info:
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2005-08-01 12:54:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89591 ***