adduser (3.123) unstable; urgency=medium

  The default for DIR_MODE has been set to 0700 for this release, again,
  after adduser 3.122 had DIR_MODE set to 2700. Previous versions of
  adduser defaulted to 0700 for the majority of this century. The default
  for SYS_DIR_MODE is still 0755.

  Note that the default for DIR_MODE is a change from historical defaults,
  which were more permissive for normal user home directories.
  Adjustments may need to be made for setups like public_html
  web content, or in-homedir mail configurations.

  System Administrators wanting a different default can set DIR_MODE
  in /etc/adduser.conf to their desired value after installation.
  The one user created during system installation needs to have the 
  home directory mode bits adjusted to the preferred value after
  installation of the system since there is no possibility to have this
  directly set in the Installer.

  See /usr/share/doc/adduser/README.Debian for detailed reasoning.

 -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>  Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:51:21 +0200

adduser (3.122) unstable; urgency=low

  This version implements SYS_DIR_MODE for home directories belonging 
  to system users. Before that, the home directory of a system user was
  also influenced by the setting of DIR_MODE. This is no longer the case.

  --add_extra_groups is now --add-extra-groups. The old spelling
  is still possible and will remain supported during Debian bookworm,
  allowing package maintainers and local users to slowly migrate during
  the bookworm cycle.

  --force-badname is now --allow-badname. The old spelling is still
  possible and will remain supported during Debian bookworm, allowing
  package maintainers and local users to slowly migrate during the
  bookworm cycle.

  System user home defaults to /nonexistent if --home is not specified.
  Packages that call adduser to create system accounts should explicitly
  specify a location for /home (see Lintian check 
  maintainer-script-lacks-home-in-adduser).

 -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>  Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:30:00 +0200
