Bug 578746

Summary:	--append option not working in usermod
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.8	CC:	mvyynqbgerqungqbgpbz.yeuhc
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Description Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-01 09:06:20 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #222540 +++

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):
shadow-utils-4.0.3-66.RHEL4.1

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.

--- Additional comment from mvyynqbgerqungqbgpbz.yeuhc on 2007-01-13 12:01:19 EST ---

Created an attachment (id=145529)
actual session showing usermod failing to work

--- Additional comment from pvrabec on 2007-01-14 08:39:00 EST ---

fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.17-12.fc6

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2010-07-23 11:36:36 UTC

There are no long options for usermod in shadow-utils-4.0.3 at all. This behaviour is correct.