Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98911
redhat-config-users will delete 'users' group (GID 100)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:35 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030530 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: When users are created without matching private groups (an option during account creation), their primary group is set to the 'users' group, GID 100. During deletion of users through redhat-config-users, if the user being deleted has his primary group set to 100, and that user is the only user in group 100, then group 100 is deleted along with the user. Additionally, redhat-config-users itself becomes confused when GID 100 is missing and future users are created with the "Create a private group for the user" checkbox unchecked. In this situation, redhat-config-users goes into an endless loop and needs to be killed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-users-1.1.5-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure there are no users in group 'users', gid 100 2. Add a user with redhat-config-users and clear the 'Create a private group for the user' checkbox 3. Verify that the new users has GID 100 as their primary group, and that they are listed in /etc/groups under 100 4. Use redhat-config-users to delete the same user 5. Verify that /etc/groups now has no entry for GID 100!! 6. Use redhat-config-users to create another user, once again clearing the 'Create a private group for the user' checkbox 7. Watch redhat-config-users go into endless loop
I added code to cvs on April 3, 2003 to fix this bug. This is a dupe of bug 78620. A new version is available in Rawhide to fix this problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78620 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.