Bug 1969825

Summary: groupdel: unrecognized option '--force' ; but -f works
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Anuj Borah <aborah>
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Version: 9.0CC: aborah, aboscatt, dlavu, pbrezina
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Description Petr Sklenar 2021-06-09 09:40:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
--force is unknown option but -f works

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.8.1-8.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install dhcp-server
2. groupdel  --force dhcpd
3.

Actual results:
[root@ci-vm-10-0-139-212 ~]# groupdel  --force dhcpd
groupdel: unrecognized option '--force'
Usage: groupdel [options] GROUP

Options:
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -P, --prefix PREFIX_DIR       prefix directory where are located the /etc/* files
  -f, --force                   delete group even if it is the primary group of a user

[root@ci-vm-10-0-139-212 ~]# groupdel  -f dhcpd

### this works


Expected results:
--force is the same as -f

Additional info:
Comment 1 Iker Pedrosa 2021-06-09 10:22:46 UTC 
Already fixed upstream:
* master
    bd4dc81a82f21f699404f0834e30bef530c57528 - add parsing support for advertised force long opt