[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#380645: usermod -a option is broken

[Nicolas François]

tags 380645 upstream
tags 380645 pending
tags 380645 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Package: passwd
> Version: 4.0.17-2
> 
> Any attempt to use the -a option to usermod as documented seems to result 
> in the program displaying a usage message.  Clint reports that there seems 
> to be a superfluous colon in the source, as adding a bogus option to -a makes 
> it work, like:
> 
> 	usermod -a bogusvalue -G cdrom backup

This is fixed by the the 301_usermod_fix_-a patch added to the shadow
repository.
This is also fixed upstream and should be fixed in the next release.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral