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

[Christian Perrier]

tags 282184 wontfix
thanks

> I don't think so. getent may use remote databases, whereas groupadd
> is purely local (according to the man page).
> 
> And some packages use it to create local groups.


All advices I've gathered up to now around me tend to mention that
having same names for groups with different GIDs in different
databases is a completely strange idea which certainly low level tools
shouldn't support.

The best motivated advice I had up to now as "hey, if you really want
to do this, why not just use vi on /etc/group|/etc/gshadow?"

As I completely agree with this, I hereby mark this bug as wontfix. I
will not recommend upstream author to implement this.