Comment # 6 on bug 1179261 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Stefan Schubert from comment #5)
> Ok, thanks for the input.
> So the task would be to exchange the call useradd.local by useradd and to
> remove the manual copy of the skel because it should be already done by
> useradd.
> Right, Fabian ?

useradd takes care of creating the user, i.e. optionally creating the home
directory, calling useradd.local and modifying /etc/passwd,shadow,etc. YaST
only appears to call useradd.local, which implies that it does the other steps
manually already. So just calling useradd instead of useradd.local would create
the user twice.

BTW, it seems like YaST edits /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow before the home
directory is created and chown is run. This introduces a theoretical race
condition, that the user can login and have write access to ~ which is
currently being chowned to the new uid. Not sure whether this can be an issue
in practice.