[TinyLogin] additional options for adduser

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Sat Jun 21 15:03:30 MDT 2003


On Sat Jun 21, 2003 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> I made a small patch to add some extra options to adduser.  In
> particular, the --disabled-password option allows scripts to create UIDs
> for system daemons without being prompted to interactively enter a
> password.  The others are --ingroup, which places the user in an
> already-extant group rather than creating a new one; --no-create-home,
> which simply does what the name suggests; and --system, which is
> accepted for compatibility with other implementations of adduser but
> doesn't have any effect.

BTW, I have adapted your patch and applied it to busybox
(unstable) as well

 -Erik

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