Package: adduser
Version: 3.134
Severity: normal
I had a group with the name of debian on a system installed not long ago. I
am not sure how, and why, I had it. It could be someone somewhat hand crafted
the installation.
That group seemed to be the group for just handful of files for a user with
the uid 1000. There was no user with a 1000 uid in /etc/passwd.
Related entries in /etc/group were
cdrom:x:24:debian
floppy:x:25:debian
audio:x:29:debian
dip:x:30:debian
video:x:44:debian
plugdev:x:46:debian
netdev:x:106:debian
debian:x:1000:
There were exepcted entries in /etc/gshadow too.
If I got it correctly, that sums the appearence of the debian group in the
system.
I ran
delgroup debian
to delete that group. I expected all the mentions of debain to be deleted
from /etc/{group,gshadow}. That is, I expected, for example,
/etc/netdev:x:106:debian to become /etc/netdev:x:106:. Which is not the case.
Even after running delgroup, I still has:
cdrom:x:24:debian
floppy:x:25:debian
audio:x:29:debian
dip:x:30:debian
video:x:44:debian
plugdev:x:46:debian
netdev:x:106:debian
And the related entries in /etc/gshadow.
How to reconstruct? Manualy run vigr and vigr -s to resemble the situation,
and delgroup debian afterwards.
--
u34
