Bug 11930

Summary: Adduser corrupts /etc/group file
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: silver.wolf
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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cutting of the /etc/group file, for the groups involved in the problem none

Description silver.wolf 2000-06-06 20:22:02 UTC 
I am having a lot of trouble using adduser on a RedHat 6.0 box. I also 
upgraded to the newest shadow-utils, but nothing changed:

I often use a shell script to add several users at once, but after some 
time, as the number of users grew, every time I add a new user, either by 
script or interactively, the /etc/group file gets corrupted: if the new 
user is also member of a group that already contains many users (in fact 
the number of users doesn't matter, the problem arises when the char count 
for the users in the group+the group name+the commas is greater than a 
fixed amount -8192-), then the user list for that group is broken, with 
several blank lines inserted, making user creation almost impossible.

I could not imagine what it is caused by, just was wondering if similar 
problems have already been reported.

Bye
Comment 1 silver.wolf 2000-06-06 20:24:10 UTC 
Created attachment 318 [details]
cutting of the /etc/group file, for the groups involved in the problem
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-18 18:09:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3809 ***