Bug 78376

Summary: crash when changing the group name of an existing group
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Brent Fox <bfox>
Component: libuserAssignee: Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
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Fixed In Version: 0.51.10-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Brent Fox 2002-11-21 21:22:51 UTC 
When trying to change the name of an existing group with a little Python script:


#!/usr/bin/python2.2

import libuser

a = libuser.admin()
groupEnt = a.lookupGroupByName('testgroup')
print groupEnt.get(libuser.GROUPNAME)[0]
groupEnt.set(libuser.GROUPNAME, "newname")
print groupEnt.get(libuser.GROUPNAME)[0]
a.modifyGroup(groupEnt)

I get the following error:

[root@bfox tmp]# ./modify.py
newname
testgroup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./modify.py", line 10, in ?
    a.modifyGroup(groupEnt)
RuntimeError: unknown error


I don't think that the error is in the Python script.  Any ideas what's
happening in libuser at this point?  The bug prevents being able to change a
group name with redhat-config-users.  This bug exists as far back as
7.3...perhaps further back but I haven't tested that.
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2003-01-16 21:09:25 UTC 
nalin: ping?
Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2004-09-01 16:59:31 UTC 
*** Bug 121252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2004-09-02 22:20:08 UTC 
Should be fixed in libuser-0.51.10-1, when it hits rawhide.