From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: Although useradd -D -g X will successfully set the default group (and useradd -D displays it properly), useradd doesn't use the new default when creating new users. This looks to be a re-introduction of whatever was the problem in bug ID 26353 which affected RH 6.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a new group, by some means (ie creating a new user). 2./usr/sbin/useradd -D -g <name or gid of new group> 3./usr/sbin/useradd -D (to display the default settings) 4.Create a new user. id -a the new user - it'll show that the user was not put into the new group - instead, a new group was created for the user. This is contrary to the behavior of the command indicated within the manual pages. Actual Results: New user was created with wrong group. Expected Results: New user should have been created with group set to the new default group. Additional info:
U need to use useradd -n. -n option cause useradd not to create new group for user, but use default group. see man useradd