On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Iker, > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 08:44:08AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > [...] > > > > > 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. > > This sounds reasonable. > > > 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. > > You mean that currently it's either the entire page or nothing at all, > right? I don't see anything that compiles part of a page either. Right. > I imagine that you could do something like that by wrapping the > conditional part in something like <ifdef id="ENABLE_SUBIDS">...</ifdef>, > and write some script to handle it. Yeah. It shouldn't be too bad.
