Subject: Re: [bug] useradd oddness
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 15:10:55 MST
Funny. It works fine here. How do you know it didn't work? Are you
trying to modify an existing user or something?
nathan r. hruby wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Two questions:
> First: I'm testing a script on my laptop that uses "useradd -G <group>"
> The expected action is for it to add the user into each group in the comma
> delimited lsit following the -G switch. But, the actual result is that
> useradd just spins its wheels and gives me lines like the following in
> /var/log/messages:
> Feb 4 11:20:29 dingo adduser[2834]: new group: name=foo, gid=502
> Feb 4 11:20:29 dingo adduser[2834]: new user: name=foo, uid=502, gid=502, home=/home/foo, shell=/bin/bash
> Feb 4 11:20:29 dingo adduser[2834]: add `foo' to group `users'
> Feb 4 11:20:36 dingo last message repeated 50446 times
>
> The users group exists in /etc/group with a GID of 400.
>
> This is what I would call broken :) Can someone else confim this?
> I'm using YDL2.0, so this might be fixed iin 2.1.
>
> Second: Where does one submit distro related bugs for YDL? If this is a
> bug, I'd like to send it to the right place so it can get fixed. I'm
> thinking there's no bugzilla.yellowdoglinux.com (that's a mouthful :).
>
> -n
>
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