[Adduser-devel] Bug#468152: Bug#468152: adduser: Parameter --ingroup does not work
Stephen Gran
sgran at debian.org
Wed Feb 27 11:25:16 UTC 2008
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Migowski said:
>
> Parameter --ingroup simply does not work. To test, invoke adduser like this:
>
> adduser peter --ingroup cdrom
>
> I assume, a "cat /etc/group | grep cdrom" should bring something like this:
>
> cdrom:x:24:peter
>
> and not this:
>
> cdrom:x:24:
The --ingroup option affects what the user's 'primary' group is - this
information is stored in the passwd file, not the groups file. So,
getent passwd peter should return that he is in group 24, or cdrom.
> If I am wrong, then this is a bugreport for uncomprehensible documentation,
> since this says:
>
> --ingroup GROUP
> Add the new user to GROUP instead of a usergroup or the default
> group defined by USERS_GID in the adduser.conf file.
>
> And i wonder, what differs "GROUP" from "a usergroup", btw.
It is sort of an arbitrary way of thinking about it, it's true. The
split is:
peter has some admin defined group as primary (cdrom)
peter has a primary group same as username (peter - this is a usergroup)
peter has the same primary group as all other users (group users)
Does that help? Or do you have a better wording for the documentation?
Cheers,
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