Bug 89895
Summary: | redhat-config-users traceback adding users without private group | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jim Shanks <jshanks> |
Component: | redhat-config-users | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | bgoupil, wxjasp02 |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | 1.1.5-9 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Last Closed: | 2003-05-19 23:09:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Jim Shanks
2003-04-29 15:11:43 UTC
I spoke too soon! The problem is that the initial installation did not create the group "users, gid=100". I'm not sure which component creates the group during install. The only thing that I did abnormally during the install was to not create a user (because I wanted to specify the uid manually). redhat-config-users should test for the existence of the group "users" before trying to use it and at least display a nice error (The default group "users" doesn't exist. Shall I create it?) instead of crashing. The group "users" is part of the default file written by the setup package (e.g. setup-2.5.25-1.noarch.rpm in RHL 9). It should pretty much always be there. That's not to say that redhat-config-users should crash if it isn't, of course. The 'users' group should always get created. I cannot explain why it didn't get created on installation on your system. I will try to change redhat-config-users to try to create this group if it doesn't exist. However, my feeling is that the absence of the 'users' group most likely a problem of some sort with your system. *** Bug 89319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Actually, I think bug #78620 is causing the 'users' group to get deleted. Should be fixed in Rawhide. I'm working on making redhat-config-users automatically recreate the users group in case it doesn't exist when you try to add a new user to the 'users' group. Should be fixed in redhat-config-users-1.1.5-9 in Rawhide. *** Bug 116999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |