Adduser devel - Feb 2005 - Bug#131654: --force-badname unsupported by groupadd

reassign #131654 passwd
thanks

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:45:04PM +0200, Marc Haber
wrote:
> The bug hasn''t been touched in six weeks.
> 
> I would like the maintainer of passwd to look into this and to say
> whether this bug is one in passwd. Frankly, I don''t see what
adduser
> could do to fix this.
The passwd maintainer didn''t react. So I''ll say this is not an
adduser
issue, and am reassigning to passwd. Please close if you find
appropriate, or reassign back to adduser with advice what adduser
could do.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#131654: --force-badname unsupported by groupadd
Bug reassigned from package `adduser'' to `passwd''.
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> Bug#131654: --force-badname unsupported by groupadd
> Bug reassigned from package `adduser'' to `passwd''.

This bug was finally and logically reassigned to the passwd package as
"groupadd" belong to it (while addgroup belongs to the adduser
package).

It seems, from the bug log, that Marc Haber repeatedly asked the passwd
package maintainer to give an answer about it, unsuccessfully.

Neither groupadd nor useradd support the --force-badname option, so
I''m wondering about simply closing this bug report. What prevents me
to do so is that the bug submitter mentioned this behaviour while using
the adduser utility.

So "adduser --group" then calls groupadd and not addgroup. *that*
sound
strange to me....

PS to Marc and adduser maintainers=A0: for post-sarge, we should
probably talk together (I''m in the process of taking over shadow, the
source package for passwd and login, which include useradd and
groupadd). Having both a "useradd" and a "adduser" utility
in Debian
seems very confusing to our users. Even me is usually forced to
remember which is which.

We should probably consider some day declaring useradd and groupadd
obsoleted by adduser and addgroup which have far more features.

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 07:06:18AM +0100, Christian Perrier
wrote:
> So "adduser --group" then calls groupadd and not addgroup. *that*
sound
> strange to me....
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 Jan  5 13:38 /usr/sbin/addgroup -> adduser*

If adduser --group would call addgroup, it would re-invoke itself.
> PS to Marc and adduser maintainers : for post-sarge, we should
> probably talk together (I''m in the process of taking over shadow,
the
> source package for passwd and login, which include useradd and
> groupadd). Having both a "useradd" and a "adduser"
utility in Debian
> seems very confusing to our users. Even me is usually forced to
> remember which is which.
> 
> We should probably consider some day declaring useradd and groupadd
> obsoleted by adduser and addgroup which have far more features.
useradd is the standard way that is available on most UNIX systems.
additionally, adduser uses useradd to do the actuall adding of the new
account.

adduser, otoh, is a Debianism.

To use other words: adduser is the front-end, useradd is the back-end.

Greetings
Marc

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> > We should probably consider some day declaring useradd and groupadd
> > obsoleted by adduser and addgroup which have far more features.
> 
> useradd is the standard way that is available on most UNIX systems.
> additionally, adduser uses useradd to do the actuall adding of the new
> account.
> 
> adduser, otoh, is a Debianism.
> 
> To use other words: adduser is the front-end, useradd is the back-end.

OK, fine. I was completely missing that point. My remarks are thus
irrelevant, of course.

So, now, my problem is that I absolutely don''t see where is the bug
indeed:

adduser --group --force-badname nameservercontroller
Adding group `nameservercontroller'' (1006)...
Fait.

In other words, groupadd is OK with the mentioned group name.

This was probably corrected during the upstream switch from
20000902 to 4.0.3 which occurred on Sep 18 2002.


Hence closing the bug report.