[Adduser-devel] Bug#335894: (no subject)

[Kimon Gazis]

Hi,

OK with the close as I don't have any more input on this. Obviously some
other package or script may have corrupted my group-file.

best regards
kimon


Marc Haber wrote:

>user adduser at packages.debian.org
>usertags #335894 close-20051130
>thanks
>
>On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Kimon Gazis wrote:
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>>Couldn't it be that at some point in the past (where the user kimon even
>>did not exist) the adm entry looked like this?:
>>
>>adm:x:4:logcheck:
>>
>>When the user kimon then was added he would have been appended directly
>>behind the colon.
>>    
>>
>
>No, with that (invalid) /etc/group file, something differently odd
>happens.
>
>Adduser uses gpasswd to set the new group members, and gpasswd doesn't
>accept ":" in a command line:
>$ sudo gpasswd -M Debian-console-log:Debian-exim adm
>gpasswd: unknown user Debian-console-log:Debian-exim
>
>I am getting the impression that this bug cannot be adduser's fault. I
>will therefore close this bug by 2005-11-30 if it remains
>unreproducible by then.
>
>Greetings
>Marc
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