adduser.conf--5

adduser.conf(5)                                                adduser.conf(5)



NAME
       /etc/adduser.conf  - configuration file for adduser(8) and addgroup(8).

DESCRIPTION
       The  file  /etc/adduser.conf  contains  defaults   for   the   programs
       adduser(8)  ,  addgroup(8)  ,  deluser(8) and delgroup(8).  Each option
       takes the form option = value.  Double or  single  quotes  are  allowed
       around  the  value.   Comment  lines  must have a pound sign (#) in the
       first line.

       The valid configuration options are:

       DSHELL The login shell to be used  for  all  new  users.   Defaults  to
              /bin/bash.

       DHOME  The  directory  in which new home directories should be created.
              Defaults to /home.

       GROUPHOMES
              If this is set to yes, the home directories will be  created  as
              /home/[groupname]/user.  Defaults to no.

       LETTERHOMES
              If  this  is  set to yes, then the home directories created will
              have an extra directory inserted which is the  first  letter  of
              the loginname.  For example: /home/u/user.  Defaults to no.

       SKEL   The  directory  from  which  skeletal  user  configuration files
              should be copied.  Defaults to /etc/skel.

       FIRST_SYSTEM_UID and LAST_SYSTEM_UID
              specify an inclusive range of dynamically allocated system  user
              UIDs.  Default to 100 - 999.

       FIRST_UID and LAST_UID
              specify  an inclusive range of dynamically allocated normal user
              UIDs.  Default to 1000 - 29999.

       USERGROUPS
              If this is set to yes, then each  created  user  will  be  given
              their  own  group to use and their home directories will be g+s.
              If this is no, then each created user  will  be  placed  in  the
              group whose GID is USERS_GID (see below).  The default is yes.

       USERS_GID
              If  USERGROUPS  is  no,  then  USERS_GID is the GID given to all
              newly-created users.  The default value is 100.

       QUOTAUSER
              If set to a nonempty value, new users will  have  quotas  copied
              from that user.  The default is empty.

       DIR_MODE
              If  set to a valid value (e.g. 0755 or 755), directories created
              will have the specified permissions. Otherwise 0755 is  used  as
              default.

       SETGID_HOME
              If  this  is  set  to  yes, then home directories for users with
              their own group ( USERGROUPS=yes ) will have the setgid bit set.
              This  was  the  default  setting  for  adduser versions << 3.13.
              Unfortunately it has some bad side effects, so we no  longer  do
              this  per  default.  If  you  want it nevertheless you can still
              activate it here.

FILES
       /etc/adduser.conf

SEE ALSO
       adduser(8), addgroup(8), deluser(8), delgroup(8)




Debian GNU/Linux                 Version 3.59                  adduser.conf(5)