/etc/adduser.conf - configuration file for
adduser(8)
and
addgroup(8).
DESCRIPTION
The file
/etc/adduser.conf
contains defaults for the programs
adduser(8)
and
addgroup(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 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.