[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#443264: passwd: useradd ignores default group and creates usergroups instead

[CaT]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7
Severity: normal


I am trying to add a new user to the system whose group will
automatically be set to 'users' but useradd fails to do so:

# useradd test
# id test
uid=1007(test) gid=1007(test) groups=1007(test)
# userdel test
# useradd -D
GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/sh
SKEL=/etc/skel
CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL=no

Doing useradd -D -g 1000 then useradd -D -g 100 (to make sure that it
writes stuff out to the file) does not change the broken behaviour. I
have seen this happen on 2 etch systems upgraded from sarge and 1 etch
system that was built fresh.

This also occurs wether or not GROUP=100 is explicitly in
/etc/default/useradd or not.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils            2.17              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules         0.79-4            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g               0.79-4            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1            1.32-3            SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                  1:4.0.18.1-7      system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  passwd/password-mismatch:
  passwd/username:
  passwd/password-empty:
* passwd/md5: true
  passwd/user-uid:
* passwd/shadow: true
  passwd/username-bad:
  passwd/user-fullname:
* passwd/make-user: false
  passwd/title: