("addgroup should not refuse adding groups that already exist with the
same name in an external database such as NIS")> > I see no real problem in this. Which behaviour are you actually > > expecting? > > The group should be created in the local database, as the user > requested it. Uh. I'm damn sure this is not a so good idea. For instance high level utilities such as adduser will probably at some moment include support for external databases such as LDAP (or NIS...if someone is still using this). I really wonder how they could behave in the case two groups with the same name exist in both database: addgroup toto spaces -->in which of the two "spaces" group should toto be added? So, in short, I think that passwd utilities are right using the getent calls to get the list of what exists and what doesn't. Tomasz, comments ?
