[Adduser-devel] Re: Bug#351681: adduser tries to re-use existing GID

[Nicolas François]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:54:25AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> I think I'll reassign the bug to passwd, just in case.

Thanks.

I seems to me that groupadd behavior is OK.
(-o must be used to use an existing group)

Regarding gshadow, I think /etc/group was changed manually, then
/etc/group and /etc/gshadow were no more synchronized.
Maybe this made adduser think that an ID was free while it was in fact in
use.

I don't remember of any such report of upgrade failure and this bug is now
unreproducible, so I'm closing this bug. I'm keeping adduser and Rob
Browning CC'ed.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral