Changeset d1538c0

Timestamp:

03/19/2007 09:13:34 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

b06ca36

Parents:

7ea4443

Message:

Change the default home directory for new users to /home and prevent useradd from creating mail spool files.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7969 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/createfiles.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
+          do not create mail spool files for them.  Add a
+          <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
+          Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can 
+          do so without issuing a warning.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1.  Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>

chapter06/createfiles.xml

@@ -90 +90 @@
 usb:x:14:
 cdrom:x:15:
+mail:x:34:
 nogroup:x:99:</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>

chapter06/shadow.xml

@@ -158 +158 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>grpconv</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Shadow's stock configuration for the <command>useradd</command>
+    utility is not suitable for LFS systems.  Use the following commands to
+    change the default home directory for new users and prevent the creation of
+    mail spool files:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>useradd -D -b /home
+sed -i 's/yes/no/' /etc/default/useradd</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>