[gobolinux-users] group management problems with usermod, useradd, etc

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/3/07, Hi There <goboster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On 2/2/07, Hi There <goboster <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >The syntax seems to be:
> >> >
> >> >] usermod -a lp -G lp root
> >> >
> >> >Pretty redundant, but it works.
> >>
> >> root <at> Home /Programs/CUPS/1.2.7/bin]usermod -a
> lp -G lp
> >> root
> >> usermod: invalid numeric argument 'lp'
> >>
> >> which package do these commands come with? maybe i
> >> could try reinstalling/changing versions.
>
> > Mine are from Shadow package, version 4.0.17.
>
> Downgraded to 4.0.17 and it works now.
>
> Seems to be a bug in Shadow 4.0.18.1

Good to know that. Might be interesting to forward this to Shadow guys.

-- 
Lucas
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