Bug#249372: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#249372: "Please enable login for GNU/Hurd": Can someone summarize this bug report?

[Christian Perrier]

> I tried to just touch /etc/login.defs, which made shadowconfig happy,
> but adduser still failed for some reason I do not remember now, there
> seems to be more involved.


root at mykerinos:/etc# mv login.defs login.defs.save
root at mykerinos:/etc# LC_ALL=C adduser krabs
Adding user `krabs'...
Adding new group `krabs' (1004).
adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1004 krabs' returned error code 1.  Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing group `krabs'.
groupdel: group krabs does not exist

Seems that adding the usergroup fails when login.defs, meaning that
groupadd needs login.defs