Re: useradd -r option

Matt Taggart <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:08:44 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.specification
Message-ID <20051018100844.8543237F82__11473.5426767313$1129630532$gmane$org@carmen.fc.hp.com>
Matt Taggart writes...

> Hi lsb-spec lsb-test and debian-lsb,

Wow, 5 day delay on this getting to the lsb lists. Maybe I should have sent 
it air express rather than bulk rate ground :)

> Tonight I encountered a 3rd party application with a post-install script 
> that was calling useradd with a '-r' option. This broke on Debian because 
> it does not support that option.

Since this mail was sent I filed a bug in the Debian Bug Tracking System 
and more discussion has happened there including comments by the upstream 
maintainer. See

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333706

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Matt Taggart        Open Source & Linux Organization R&D
[email protected]   Hewlett-Packard