groupadd, useradd, etc

[Richard E Miles]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:35:18 -0600
Bill Gradwohl <bill at ycc.com> wrote:

> Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> 
> > I believe its a sequence of events issue when using the normal 
> > commands. I've recreated the problem on another machine.
> 
> I know I'm replying to myself, but I figured out what causes gshadow to 
> get corrupted.
> 
> Execute the following commands:
>   tail /etc/gshadow         # to know what you started with
>   groupadd sambashare
>   tail /etc/gshadow
>   useradd xyz
>   tail /etc/gshadow
>   usermod -G sambashare xyz
>   tail /etc/gshadow
> 
> The usermod utility causes corruption in gshadow. The more users area 
> added to the sambashare group, the more trashed gshadow becomes.
> 
> To remove the corruption :
>   userdel -r xyz
>   groupdel sambashare
> 
> I'm going to bugzilla this if its not in there already.
> 
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Glad you found the problem Bill. Good luck.

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Richard E Miles
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