Skip to content

Clarify documentation regarding creation of homedir #1523

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
septatrix wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Clarify documentation regarding creation of homedir #1523

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions man/useradd.8.xml
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -186,10 +186,9 @@
<replaceable>BASE_DIR</replaceable> and use that as the
login directory name.
The directory <replaceable>HOME_DIR</replaceable> is not created by
default. However it will be created for non-system users if either the
<option>-m</option> flag is specified or
<replaceable>CREATE_HOME</replaceable> in
<filename>login.defs</filename> is set to true. However, it will never
default. It will only be created if the <option>-m</option> flag
Copy link
Collaborator

@alejandro-colomar alejandro-colomar Jan 30, 2026

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

The right amount of spaces after period is two. Please don't break that.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING.d/patches/description#n41
https://web.archive.org/web/20171217060354/http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324

is specified or, for non-system users, if <replaceable>CREATE_HOME</replaceable>
in <filename>login.defs</filename> is set to true. However, it will never
be created if the <option>-M</option> flag is specified.
</para>
</listitem>
Expand Down