Goal: accepts the -O flag for backward compatibility. (was used by adduser?) Note: useradd.8 needs to be regenerated. Status wrt upstream: not included as this is just specific backward compatibility for Debian --- a/man/useradd.8.xml +++ b/man/useradd.8.xml @@ -329,6 +329,11 @@ databases are reset to avoid reusing the entry from a previously deleted user. + + For the compatibility with previous Debian's + useradd, the option is + also supported. + --- a/src/useradd.c +++ b/src/useradd.c @@ -1059,9 +1059,9 @@ }; while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, #ifdef WITH_SELINUX - "b:c:d:De:f:g:G:hk:K:lmMNop:rR:s:u:UZ:", + "b:c:d:De:f:g:G:hk:O:K:lmMNop:rR:s:u:UZ:", #else /* !WITH_SELINUX */ - "b:c:d:De:f:g:G:hk:K:lmMNop:rR:s:u:U", + "b:c:d:De:f:g:G:hk:O:K:lmMNop:rR:s:u:U", #endif /* !WITH_SELINUX */ long_options, NULL)) != -1) { switch (c) { @@ -1184,6 +1184,7 @@ kflg = true; break; case 'K': + case 'O': /* compatibility with previous Debian useradd */ /* * override login.defs defaults (-K name=value) * example: -K UID_MIN=100 -K UID_MAX=499