Debian bug report logs - #1350
adduser behaves wrongly if called by non-root user

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From: sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1350: adduser behaves wrongly if called by non-root

> sfere:richard$ adduser --help
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$ adduser --system --group majordomo
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$ 
> 
> The error message is broken and the program should give help even if
> it's not running as the right user.

I fixed this in adduser-1.94-2. (I will upload it this evening.)

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On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Package: adduser
> Version: 1.94
> 
> sfere:richard$ adduser --help
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$ adduser --system --group majordomo
> : only root may add a user or group to the system.
> sfere:richard$
> 
> The error message is broken and the program should give help even if
> it's not running as the right user.

You are correct.  I'll fix this in the next release.

Ted Hajek -=- Distributed Computing Services -=- University of Minnesota
"That summer fields grew high and we had wildflower fever." - 10,000 Maniacs

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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
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Subject: adduser behaves wrongly if called by non-root user

Package: adduser
Version: 1.94

sfere:richard$ adduser --help
: only root may add a user or group to the system.
sfere:richard$ adduser --system --group majordomo
: only root may add a user or group to the system.
sfere:richard$ 

The error message is broken and the program should give help even if
it's not running as the right user.

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