On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Now, if the dialout group entry contains nonexistent groups, above code > fragment > will die with > gpasswd: unknown user nonexistent > adduser: `/usr/bin/gpasswd -M nonexistent,chipcard dialout' > returned error code 1. Aborting.
I was about to say "bug in gpasswd", but that fragment of code in adduser is really weird. Why gpasswd -a wasn't used, I have no idea. > - file a bug against adduser or gpasswd? I'd ask Roland (adduser's maintainer) why he's using gpasswd -M. There's gotta be a reasonable explanation, but there's no comment (apart from "there is a race condition" a couple of lines up). > - improve the postinsts handling of the situation I think that your config script is in the right. You're not supposed to know what the story is with users and groups - that's adduser's (and, by extension, all the other utilities involved) problem. > Note that access to the serial/usbtty ports is vital to the daemon in the > package. Heh. 'chmod 666 /dev/*' would work... <grin> -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16
