Hi, OK with the close as I don't have any more input on this. Obviously some other package or script may have corrupted my group-file.
best regards kimon Marc Haber wrote: >user [EMAIL PROTECTED] >usertags #335894 close-20051130 >thanks > >On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Kimon Gazis wrote: > > >>Couldn't it be that at some point in the past (where the user kimon even >>did not exist) the adm entry looked like this?: >> >>adm:x:4:logcheck: >> >>When the user kimon then was added he would have been appended directly >>behind the colon. >> >> > >No, with that (invalid) /etc/group file, something differently odd >happens. > >Adduser uses gpasswd to set the new group members, and gpasswd doesn't >accept ":" in a command line: >$ sudo gpasswd -M Debian-console-log:Debian-exim adm >gpasswd: unknown user Debian-console-log:Debian-exim > >I am getting the impression that this bug cannot be adduser's fault. I >will therefore close this bug by 2005-11-30 if it remains >unreproducible by then. > >Greetings >Marc > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
