Subject: bin/11071: usermod -G doesn't work
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh <feyrer@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/23/2000 09:24:41
>Number: 11071
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: usermod -G doesn't work
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 23 09:30:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: hf
>Release: 1.5_ALPHA2
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD miyu 1.5_ALPHA2 NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (MIYU) #12: Thu Sep 21 13:13:38 MEST 2000 feyrer@miyu:/ccd0/cvs/src-1.5/sys/arch/i386/compile/MIYU i386
>Description:
"usermod -G wheel someuser" does not work. Given that this is
needed to su(8) to root, that's fairly bad, and people have to
go back to manually editing /etc/group.
>How-To-Repeat:
miyu# grep ingres /etc/group
ingres:*:74:ingres
miyu# usermod -G ingres $USER
miyu# grep ingres /etc/group
ingres:*:74:ingres
>Fix:
Unknown.
A quick "grep /etc/group usr.sbin/user/*" shows that there's no
code that actually touches /etc/group.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: