[Adduser-devel] Bug#499105: Bug#499105: after adduser <foo> <group>, the user root has no groups

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, root said:
> i use SSH on my hosts with the feature to limit login to a special group.
> So to login as root to a host, root has to be member of a group e.g. sshers
> 
> adduser has the "feature" to lose all groups of root, after adding some other user 
> to a random group.
> 
> this is really grave.
> 	- it makes backup scripts not working anymore
> 	- it may deny access to the machine
> 
> if this _is_ a feature, a warning of "dropping" groups would be nice.

The code has changed in later versions - can you pull the version in
Lenny and test again?

Thanks,
-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
|   ,''`.                                            Stephen Gran |
|  : :' :                                        sgran at debian.org |
|  `. `'                        Debian user, admin, and developer |
|    `-                                     http://www.debian.org |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/adduser-devel/attachments/20080916/e4f618e3/attachment.pgp