[Adduser-devel] Bug#573155: usage suggests "adduser --group [--gid ID] GROUP" which doesn't work

Paul Slootman paul at debian.org
Tue Mar 9 11:57:50 UTC 2010


Package: adduser
Version: 3.112
Severity: normal

# adduser --help
...
adduser --group [--gid ID] GROUP
addgroup [--gid ID] GROUP
   Add a user group
...

# adduser --group --gid 1032 voorraad
adduser: The --group, --ingroup, and --gid options are mutually exclusive.

The alternative addgroup does work:

# addgroup --gid 1032 voorraad
Adding group `voorraad' (GID 1032) ...
Done.



Paul

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.28      Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                       1:4.1.4.2-1 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                    5.10.1-11   minimal Perl system

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl        1.05-6     Using libc functions for internati
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.1-11  Core Perl modules

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true





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