Your message dated Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:17:54 -0600
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and subject line Re: Bug#640894: 'useradd' fails adding a user to a given
group; 'id' and 'groups' give a false positive
has caused the Debian Bug report #640894,
regarding 'useradd' fails adding a user to a given group; 'id' and 'groups'
give a false positive
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: important
I try to create the user "testuser" adding it to the "staff" group:
bash:# useradd -M -g staff --password sa1aY64JOY94w testuser
"id" says that all was gone rightly:
bash:# id testuser
uid=1002(testuser) gid=50(staff) groups=50(staff)
... "groups" also confirm it:
bash:# groups testuser
testuser : staff
But if I check deeply, I discover that the user is not in the group:
bash:# grep staff /etc/group
staff:x:50:
At this point I try to add again the user to the group using adduser:
bash:# adduser testuser staff
Adding user `testuser' to group `staff' ...
Adding user testuser to group staff
Done.
Now the user appears in the group:
grep staff /etc/group
staff:x:50:testuser
Another verification:
bash:# adduser testuser staff
The user `testuser' is already a member of `staff'.
So it seems that useradd doesn't add really the user. Moreover 'id' and
'groups' fail to check the user presence in the group.
Best regards.
Alberto Eusebi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
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Alberto Eusebi
[email protected]
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--- Begin Message ---
After some offline discussion all issues have been resolved. I am
closing this bug report.
Bob
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