[Adduser-devel] Bug#454928: Bug#454928: adduser: "Removing group `nogroup', since no other user is part of it."

Marc Haber mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de
Mon Dec 31 15:41:16 UTC 2007


On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 07:40:28PM +0100, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > $ sudo deluser --remove-home xmppgw
> > Looking for files to backup/remove ...
> > Removing files ...
> > Removing user xmppgw' ...
> > Warning: Removing group nogroup', since no other user is part of it.
> > Done.
> > $     
> > 
> > I do not think that it is a good idea to have adduser remove "nogroup"
> > or any other group that is part of the default install.
> 
> Indeed. Can you check if this group still exists on the machine you
> encountered this issue?

The group still exists, but I do not remember whether I recreated the
group manually.

Greetings
Marc

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