Subject: Re: [bug] useradd oddness
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 15:23:20 MST
It occurs to me that I yup updated to YDL 2.1, so maybe that doesn't
help. :)
Bo Brinkman wrote:
> 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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