On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Rituparna, > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:24:13PM +0530, Rituparna ghosh wrote: > > Hello > > I am not sure if this is the right place to raise this concern I have from > > man7 https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/useradd.8.html > > That page says it belongs to the shadow project, not to the Linux > man-pages project > > COLOPHON top > > This page is part of the shadow-utils (utilities for managing > accounts and shadow password files) project. Information about > the project can be found at > ⟨https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow⟩;. If you have a bug > report for this manual page, send it to > pkg-shadow-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. This page was obtained > from the project's upstream Git repository > ⟨https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow⟩; on 2023-06-23. (At that > time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the > repository was 2023-06-22.) If you discover any rendering > problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there > is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have > corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON > (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to > man-pages@xxxxxxxx > > I've CCed the mailing list for shadow, although the project is more > active on GitHub, in the link above. I've also CCed Iker, a shadow > maintainer from Red Hat. > > > > > The useradd command here is showing an option -F which is shown as > > invalid in RH 8.8 or RH 9. > > Is this correct? > > From what I see in the source code of useradd.c in shadow, the feature > is compiled conditionally, #ifdef ENABLE_SUBIDS. It may be that RHEL, > or your version, doesn't build with that option; I ignore it, I'm a > Debian user. Yeah - but the manpage should likewise should not show the option if it is not compiled in, I guess. At the moment it looks like we conditionally complie some manpages, like newuidmap.1, but I don't see any sections compiled out in the man/*.xml files. > alx@debian:~/src/shadow/shadow/master$ grep -rl add.subids.for.system > man/useradd.8.xml > po/fr.po > tests/run_all.coverage > tests/run_all > src/useradd.c > alx@debian:~/src/shadow/shadow/master$ grep -rn -C1 add.subids.for.system src/ > src/useradd.c-954-#ifdef ENABLE_SUBIDS > src/useradd.c:955: (void) fputs (_(" -F, --add-subids-for-system add entries to sub[ud]id even when adding a system user\n"), usageout); > src/useradd.c-956-#endif > -- > src/useradd.c-1245-#ifdef ENABLE_SUBIDS > src/useradd.c:1246: {"add-subids-for-system", no_argument,NULL, 'F'}, > src/useradd.c-1247-#endif > > Cheers, > Alex > > -- > <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
