Hi Brian, I finally tested the new packages on Ubuntu Core 18 (with the bionic packages) and Ubuntu Core 20 (with the focal ones). I first tried to reproduce the issue in Ubuntu Desktop, by making /etc/groups and /etc/passwd read-only and indeed I couldn't add my user to a group, but unfortunately then I couldn't get the extrausers database setup correctly, so I gave up and just ran a quick smoke test to verify that the new binaries work as expected and instead focused on Ubuntu Core, that's where we initially had the issue.
The only problem is that I didn't test the entire deb packages, since the root FS in UC is read-only and not debian-based, but I just extrated the binaries from the passwd deb package and bind-mounted them over the original UC ones. Then I was able to add my user to a group, without needing to specify the --extrausers parameter. I hope that this is good enough as a verification. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-bionic verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1959375 Title: [SRU] Please support group manipulation with "extrausers" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1959375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
