#1008090 adduser --system should be quieter on console

Package:
adduser
Source:
adduser
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2026-01-10 11:39:56 UTC
Severity:
minor
#1008090#5
Date:
2022-03-22 10:45:18 UTC
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Many packages put scaffolding around adduser --system to avoid adduser
output from appearing on the console. We don't want people to do that,
so adduser should be quieter on the console.

Why don't we put more output to syslog instead of the console? That
could be done by assigning each message a priority and having
configuration about which priorities are written to the console in
normal, quiet, silent, verbose and debug mode, but write everything to
syslog. for syslog, we should always use the English text.

Reason: #228692, for example
#1008090#12
Date:
2026-01-10 10:08:19 UTC
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