I am having a lot of trouble using adduser on a RedHat 6.0 box. I also upgraded to the newest shadow-utils, but nothing changed: I often use a shell script to add several users at once, but after some time, as the number of users grew, every time I add a new user, either by script or interactively, the /etc/group file gets corrupted: if the new user is also member of a group that already contains many users (in fact the number of users doesn't matter, the problem arises when the char count for the users in the group+the group name+the commas is greater than a fixed amount -8192-), then the user list for that group is broken, with several blank lines inserted, making user creation almost impossible. I could not imagine what it is caused by, just was wondering if similar problems have already been reported. Bye
Created attachment 318 [details] cutting of the /etc/group file, for the groups involved in the problem
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3809 ***