[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#668855: passwd: adding supplementary groups could be better documented

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.5-1
Severity: normal

I tried to add a supplementary group "wireshark":

# usermod -aG wireshark amarsh04
# exit
$ groups
amarsh04 lp dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev lpadmin
$ su
Password:
# usermod -a -G wireshark amarsh04
# groups amarsh04
amarsh04 : amarsh04 lp dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev lpadmin wireshark

This did not appear to be properly documented in the manual page, ie having
to separate -a and -G to get the desired functionality.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc2+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils     4.3
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  libpam-modules  1.1.3-7
ii  libpam0g        1.1.3-7
ii  libselinux1     2.1.9-4
ii  libsemanage1    2.1.6-5

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

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