Explanation: clarify the useradd -d parameter as it does create directory HOME_DIR if it doesn't exit.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677005
Changelog: [serge] minor tweak to the text
This option can be used to set a separate mode for useradd(8) and
newusers(8) to create the home directories with.
If this option is not set, the current behavior of using UMASK
or the default umask is preserved.
There are many distributions that set UMASK to 077 by default just
to create home directories not readable by others and use things like
/etc/profile, bashrc or sudo configuration files to set a less
restrictive
umask. This has always resulted in bug reports because it is hard
to follow as users tend to change files like bashrc and are not about
setting the umask to counteract the umask set in /etc/login.defs.
A recent change in sudo has also resulted in many bug reports about
this. sudo now tries to respect the umask set by pam modules and on
systems where pam does not set a umask, the login.defs UMASK value is
used.
This option can be used to set a separate mode for useradd(8) and
newusers(8) to create the home directories with.
If this option is not set, the current behavior of using UMASK
or the default umask is preserved.
There are many distributions that set UMASK to 077 by default just
to create home directories not readable by others and use things like
/etc/profile, bashrc or sudo configuration files to set a less
restrictive
umask. This has always resulted in bug reports because it is hard
to follow as users tend to change files like bashrc and are not about
setting the umask to counteract the umask set in /etc/login.defs.
A recent change in sudo has also resulted in many bug reports about
this. sudo now tries to respect the umask set by pam modules and on
systems where pam does not set a umask, the login.defs UMASK value is
used.
If SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is set, it will be added to the syslog entry.
Closes#123.
Changelog: (SEH squashed commit): Fixing indentation
Changelog: (SEH) break up long line
Suggesting mode 2770 is dangerous because it makes the binary writeable
by all members of the owning group which is supposed to be normal
end-users. Suggest 2710 instead as is usual for s[ug]id binaries,
allowing execution but neither reading nor writing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@gmx.de>
Synchronize how passwd(5) and shadow(5) describe the password field.
Reorder the descriptions more logically.
Signed-off-by: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
- translated by Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
- proofread by the debian-l10n-french mailing list contributors
Signed-off-by: Alban VIDAL <alban.vidal@zordhak.fr>
As the large uids are usually provided by remote user identity and
authentication service, which also provide user login tracking,
there is no need to create a huge sparse file for them on every local
machine.
fixup! login.defs: Add LASTLOG_UID_MAX variable to limit lastlog to small uids.
Should have been: '[...] but only checkS [...]'.
So there was a missing 's'. Architectures isn't the right word either.
I decided to write the whole sentence new.
This functionality is useful because there is now a feature
of Linux-PAM's pam_lastlog module to block expired users (users
which did not login recently enough) from login. This commit
complements it so the sysadmin is able to unblock such expired user.
Signed-off-by: Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
When referring to USERGROUPS_ENAB, the German mentions /etc/default/useradd
when it should be /etc/login.defs (like the original English does).
Reported-by: Stefan Kiesler <heavymetal@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Until now only exact username specification in /etc/sub[ug]id file allowed the
mapping. This prevented normal use for those users who use multiple usernames
with the same UID, as it rejected mapping even though it was allowed for
another username with the same UID.
This patch initially retains the old behaviour, for performance's sake. In the
first pass, new[ug]idmap only searches for exact username match.
If that yields no valid results, it continues into another loop, which does UID
resolution and comparison. If either definition (numeric UID mapping
specification or mapping specification for another username with the same UID as
current username) is found, it is used.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Users may otherwise be confused and think that because the kernel
does not restrict uid mappings to the root user (within his
current uid mappings), newuidmap will ignore /etc/subuid for the
root user. It will not.
Reported-by: Philippe Grégoire <gregoirep@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_GID_COUNT.xml: Document newusers behavior
when the user already have subordinate group IDs.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Likewise.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_GID_COUNT.xml: Fix typo (MAX<->MIN).
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Likewise.
* libmisc/idmapping.h: Document what the upper and lower fields
are in struct map_range.
* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Document when the gid, gidlower and count
argument are.
* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise for uid, uidlower and count.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_GID_COUNT.xml: Document that the behavior
of useradd and newusers depends on the existence of /etc/subgid.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Likewise for /etc/subuid.
* configure.in: Add configure options --enable-subordinate-ids /
--disable-subordinate-ids. Enabled by default.
* lib/prototypes.h: Include <config.h> before using its macros.
* lib/commonio.h, lib/commonio.c: Define commonio_append only when
ENABLE_SUBIDS is defined.
* lib/prototypes.h, libmisc/find_new_sub_gids.c,
libmisc/find_new_sub_uids.c: Likewise.
* lib/subordinateio.h, lib/subordinateio.c: Likewise.
* libmisc/user_busy.c: Only check if subordinate IDs are in use if
ENABLE_SUBIDS is defined.
* src/Makefile.am: Create newgidmap and newuidmap only if
ENABLE_SUBIDS is defined.
* src/newusers.c: Check for ENABLE_SUBIDS to enable support for
subordinate IDs.
* src/useradd.c: Likewise.
* src/userdel.c: Likewise.
* src/usermod.c: Likewise.
* man/Makefile.am: Install man1/newgidmap.1, man1/newuidmap.1,
man5/subgid.5, and man5/subuid.5 only if ENABLE_SUBIDS is defined.
* man/fr/Makefile.am: Install man1/newgidmap.1, man1/newuidmap.1,
man5/subgid.5, and man5/subuid.5 (not translated yet).
* man/generate_mans.mak: Add xsltproc conditionals
subids/no_subids.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_GID_COUNT.xml: Add dependency on subids
condition.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Likewise.
* man/usermod.8.xml: Document options for subordinate IDs and
reference subgid(5) / subuid(5) depending on the subids condition.
man5, man8 subdirectories. This fix the generation of .so links
which did not point to a path relative to the top-level manual
hierarchy.
* man/generate_mans.mak: Update man paths accordingly.
* man/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/da/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/de/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/fr/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/it/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/pl/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/ru/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/sv/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* man/zh_CN/Makefile.am: Likewise.
