From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: The luseradd utility creates a user account without asking for any information even if command line "--interactive" was given. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libuser-0.52.5-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. luseradd --interactive testuser Actual Results: No prompt for any information. Expected Results: Prompt for all information. Additional info:
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Thanks for your report. The behavior is correct, only the --help output is imprecise. --help says: -i, --interactive prompt for all information but the real meaning of the option is: -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. Unfortunately the libuser version in RHEL4 has very little documentation. Thus, -i affects only libuser modules that can ask questions about configuration - in practice, only the "ldap" module. It does not mean that luseradd should ask for information about the account to create interactively.