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Hi,
I am coming back to this bug report after more than a decade. Sorry for
that. The mess in adduser is slowly beginning to clear up.
For this issue, I need a better reproducer. If you're still interested
in this, it might be useful if you submit a typescript of commands and
their output, and from the point on where the results are unexpected I
would like to know what happens and what you would expect.
Are you talking about the behavior of deluser when a user has the same
group both as primary group and as supplementary group?
If so, things seem to be fine now:
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# addgroup keks
Adding group `keks' (GID 1000) ...
Done.
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# adduser --ingroup keks kruemel
Adding user `kruemel' ...
Adding new user `kruemel' (1001) with group `keks (1000)' ...
Creating home directory `/home/kruemel' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for kruemel
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []: Monster
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
Adding new user `kruemel' to supplemental / extra groups `users' ...
Adding user `kruemel' to group `users' ...
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent passwd kruemel
kruemel:x:1001:1000:Monster,,,:/home/kruemel:/bin/bash
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent group keks
keks:x:1000:
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# adduser kruemel keks
Adding user `kruemel' to group `keks' ...
Done.
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent passwd kruemel
kruemel:x:1001:1000:Monster,,,:/home/kruemel:/bin/bash
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent group keks
keks:x:1000:kruemel
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# deluser kruemel
deluser: `/usr/bin/crontab' not executed. Skipping crontab removal. Package
`cron' required.
Removing user `kruemel' ...
Done.
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent passwd kruemel
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv# getent group keks
keks:x:1000:
root@fan-sid-buildd-amd64-zyui:/srv#
If I have guessed wrong, I need to know what a "main group" is.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:12:09PM +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> "Warning: group X is now empty."
> should be fixed, as it is clearly wrong. This warning should be printed
> when the group *is not* removed ; and when the group is removed, deluser
> would better say:
> "Empty group X has been automatically deleted."
The adduser code does not contain the string "is now empty". It was
either removed over the last eleven years, or it originates from the
low-level tools from the passwd package, like useradd, userdel etc. We
probably cannot do much about this inside adduser.
I would like to have this bug closed, but the fix is not goingt to make
it into bookworm. If I dont get response for this mail by the end of
June 2023 (which is half a year in the future now), I will close this
bug report.
Greetings
Marc
