Bug 2157669

Summary:	Failure during useradd or groupadd does not print enough details
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Menšík <pemensik>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Bug Blocks:	2149036

Description Petr Menšík 2023-01-02 14:59:35 UTC

Description of problem:
In bug #2149036 anaconda team reported failure during install. It fails to add group from %pre script. Because I am not able to step it interactively, I am just guessing what might be the cause of it. I think if file open fails, it should print also reason given by errno.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.13-3.fc38.x86_64

How reproducible:
not straightforward, but reliable

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make groupadd fail
2. printed error message should make it clear what is the cause.
3.

Actual results:
groupadd: cannot open /etc/group
useradd: group 'unbound' does not exist

Expected results:
Also a reason should be printed. I expect it to be EPERM or ENOENT, but I should not need to guess.

Additional info:
Details in bug #2149036 comment #9.