0002876: usermod -G plus comma gives root group

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0002876

CentOS-5

shadow-utils

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2008-06-06 08:25

2009-02-18 16:38

Reporter

siposa

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

resolved

Resolution

fixed

Platform

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Product Version

5.1

Target Version

Fixed in Version

5.2

Summary

0002876: usermod -G plus comma gives root group

Description

When an additional comma added to the value of "G" option in "usermod" utility, then the specified user assigned to then "root" group without any warnings or error messages.

Additional Information

[root@example ~]# id test1
uid=505(test1) gid=507(test1) groups=507(test1)
[root@example ~]# usermod -G p1,p2 test1
[root@example ~]# id test1
uid=505(test1) gid=507(test1) groups=507(test1),506(p2),510(p1)
[root@example ~]# usermod -G p1,p2, test1
[root@example ~]# id test1
uid=505(test1) gid=507(test1) groups=507(test1),0(root),506(p2),510(p1)
[root@example ~]# usermod -G p1,,p2 test1
[root@example ~]# id test1
uid=505(test1) gid=507(test1) groups=507(test1),0(root),506(p2),510(p1)

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(0007382) range (administrator) 2008-06-06 09:28	Thank you for finding that, I reported it upstream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450262 [^]

(0008736) range (administrator) 2009-02-18 16:38	Fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.17-14.el5

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2008-06-06 08:25	siposa	New Issue
2008-06-06 09:13	range	Status	new => acknowledged
2008-06-06 09:28	range	Note Added: 0007382
2009-02-18 16:38	range	Note Added: 0008736
2009-02-18 16:38	range	Status	acknowledged => resolved
2009-02-18 16:38	range	Fixed in Version	=> 5.2
2009-02-18 16:38	range	Resolution	open => fixed