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Bug 201991 - useradd can't find group
Summary: useradd can't find group
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: shadow-utils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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: 201993 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: FC6Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-10 08:23 UTC by Karsten Hopp
Modified: 2019-11-14 06:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-08-11 11:00:20 UTC
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Description Karsten Hopp 2006-08-10 08:23:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
I found this in cron/anacron's logs:
/etc/cron.daily/beagle-crawl-system:
chown: `beaglidx': invalid user

/etc/passwd has no entry for beaglidx

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
beagle-0.2.7-6
setup-2.5.53-1
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2006-08-10 08:28:18 UTC 
As this was a fresh install there are more infos in install.log:
Installing beagle - 0.2.7-6.x86_64
warning: user beaglidx does not exist - using root
warning: user beaglidx does not exist - using root

This looks like a missing Requires(pre): shadow-utils as shadow-utils is installed
much later than beagle
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2006-08-10 14:50:29 UTC 
0.2.7-7 adds the prereq.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2006-08-10 16:14:58 UTC 
That didn't help. Seems to be a useradd bug:

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1000 blah
/usr/sbin/useradd -r -u 1000 -s /sbin/nologin -c "blah" -d / -g 1000 blah
useradd: unknown group 1000

This doesn't happen in fc5.
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2006-08-10 16:20:23 UTC 
Using -g blah gives:
useradd: "invalid numeric argument 'blah'

Note, the groupadd works. The problem is in useradd.
Comment 5 Wart 2006-08-10 23:37:00 UTC 
For reference:  shadow-utils-4.0.17-4 in rawhide is affected by this bug.
Comment 6 Peter Vrabec 2006-08-11 11:00:20 UTC 
fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.17-5
Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2006-08-17 10:53:03 UTC 
*** Bug 201993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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