On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Darren Spruell wrote:
> On 12/27/06, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > you put your test1 into an existing group; in your case staff,wheel; in
> > the example guest,staff,beer. It does work here, if I put nobody. But I
> > don't want nobody; since after some hundred it will complain of being too
> > long, and I did the whole thing ('nobody') originally only, to get it
> > working. In your case, I'd like
> > > $ sudo adduser -batch test1 test1 'Test User 1' \
> > > '$2a$06$kaLk/lPsfDpSibjO4frBf.WyoWOGY98illmMOL/bo6QsPTBmovsoC'
> > , if you understand what I mean. That is: test1 into its own group and
> > only into its own group. And I read man adduser surely 30 times up and
> > down; this is why I tried all those -group veriations, of which none
> > worked here (see original thread).
> >
> > I take the example for more clarity:
> > adduser -batch falken nobody 'Prof. Falken' joshua
> > (is okay, like in man adduser)
> > adduser -batch falken falken 'Prof. Falken' joshua
> > Group ``falken'' does not exist
>
> All right, I missed that subtlety. I can confirm the same behavior.
>
> # adduser -batch falken falken 'Prof. Falken' joshua
> Group ``falken'' does not exist
>
> But, adduser(8) states:
>
> -group login_group
> Specify the default login group. A value of USER means that the
> username is to be used as the login group.
>
> So, this suggests that the -group option sets the _default_ login
> group - I don't take that as meaning "a group setting for that
> instance of creating a new user." I don't know (and perhaps I'm way
> off here) if this means that -group can even be used with -batch.
>
> At any rate, using them together fails for me:
>
> # adduser -group USER -batch falken 'Prof. Falken' joshua
> Group ``Prof.'' does not exist
> Group ``Falken'' does not exist
>
> adduser(8) also says that -group is for setting the default login
> group, and that it does. If set to 'USER' it serves to put the new
> user in a group that matches their user name if invoked as follows:
>
> # adduser -batch falken
> Added user ``falken''
> # grep falken /etc/{passwd,group}
> /etc/passwd:falken:*:1002:998::/home/falken:/bin/ksh
> /etc/group:falken:*:998:
>
> ...but tagging the full name and password information onto the above
> command fails all the same. Maybe someone else can confirm if it is
> possible to use adduser in batch mode to add a user to non-existent
> groups somehow, whether or not the -group option is what it takes.
adduser -batch joe '' 'Joe Blow'
-Otto
