Bug 222540

Summary: --append option not working in usermod
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael De La Rue <mvyynqbgerqungqbgpbz.yeuhc>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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: 578746 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Description Michael De La Rue 2007-01-13 17:01:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
The --append long option does not seem to work at all.  The equivelent -a option
does work.  I'm leaving this as normal severity rather than low

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Version     : 4.0.17
Release     : 11.fc6 

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. groupadd -r sound 
2. usermod -a -G sound mikedlr
3. usermod --append -G sound mikedlr
4. usermod -a -G sound mikedlr  

Actual results:
the second and fourth command complete correctly and silently.  The third step
outputs the usage information from usermod 

Expected results:
according to manual page and usermod --help, --append option should do the same
as -a

Additional info:
I'm leaving this as normal severity since an important script might be depending
on this.
Comment 1 Michael De La Rue 2007-01-13 17:01:19 UTC 
Created attachment 145529 [details]
actual session showing usermod failing to work
Comment 2 Peter Vrabec 2007-01-14 13:39:00 UTC 
fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.17-12.fc6