Re: man7 - useradd query

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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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.

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.

Cheers,
Alex

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