[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#282184: More information needed for this bug

[Christian Perrier]

I'm afraid I'm having hard times actually understanding the exact
details of this bug report.

The only information we have is:

# groupadd -g 108 spaces
groupadd: group spaces exists

but one can see that it isn't in /etc/group yet:

# groupmod -g 108 spaces
groupmod: spaces not found in /etc/group

It is necessary to add the group in /etc/group in order to avoid
a possible clash in the future, as groups are sometimes added to
/etc/group when new packages are installed.


As I understand from the bug title there's a "spaces" group in the NIS
database and groupadd refuses to add one in the local
database....while groupmod refuses to modify it.

Both probably because "getent group" returns a list including "spaces".

I see no real problem in this. Which behaviour are you actually
expecting?


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