Bug 236516

Oh, and the URL in the specfile gives me a 403

man useradd
  -m, --create-home
  ...
  The -k option is only valid in conjunction with the -m option.
  ...

According to comment #1, this is my communication with upstream:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> I just want to ask you, if shadow-utils upstream is still alive. I
> haven't seen much activity on mailing-list and URL's in README are not
> found anymore.

It's still alive but I have no time in next few days for completting move all 
resources to new loacation. It will be probably avalaible on shadow.webd.pl in 
next few days.

kloczek 

I'll admit I felt a bit stupid that I hadn't read that part of the manpage. 
Though I'm reopening this bug because the manpage is wrong when it says 

"... The
          -k option is only valid in conjunction with the -m option. The
          default is to not create the directory and to not copy any files."

On FC6, the default behaviour is to create the directory and copy the files from
/etc/skel, which is why I had no intuition that the -m option was needed for the
behavior I was aiming for.

Either the manpage or default behavior should be changed so the documentation is
valid.

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I suspect nothing has changed, though I'm employed now, and don't have time to
pursue this.  At the very least, on F8 the manpage is a bit weird, in that the
-k option is only mentioned under the -m section, and there not in a completely
unambiguous way (i.e. nowhere is it explained how to specify SKEL_DIR).

Hi Jane,

could you try:
http://people.redhat.com/pvrabec/rpms/shadow-utils-4.1.1-2.src.rpm

I have changed man page to:
...
-m, --create-home
    The user´s home directory will be created if it does not exist. The
    default is to create the directory and to copy files from /etc/skel into
    it. This behavior is set by CREATE_HOME directive in /etc/login.defs by
    Red Hat.

-k, --skel SKEL_DIR
    The files contained in SKEL_DIR will be copied to the home directory
    if the -k option is used, otherwise the files contained in /etc/skel
    will be used instead. Any directories contained in SKEL_DIR or /etc/skel
    will be created in the user´s home directory as well.
...

-k doesn't require -m anymore, if it's OK for you, I'll commit it.

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