Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 130287
usermod will not add NIS users to locally defined groups in /etc/group
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:03 EST
Description of problem: We wish to be able to use usermod to add a NIS user to a group defined locally on a single machine in the /etc/group file. Currently usermod just returns an error because the user is not defined in /etc/passwd. This works just fine if the /etc/group file is edited by hand to include the nis user. Its just the usermod tool that refused to create the entry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-20 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a nis user: nis_user 2.create a local group: local_group 3.run "usermod -G local_group nis_user" Actual Results: User is not added to the local group. Usermod returns with the error usermod: nis_user not found in /etc/passwd Expected Results: I would expect a line such as local_group:x:105:nis_user to appear in the /etc/group file Additional info:
You must make any changes involving NIS on the NIS server (man usermod) U can use "gpasswd -a nis_user local_group" instead of "usermod -G local_group nis_user"