Hi ymtys18k,

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:53:25PM -0300, ymtys18k wrote:
> When there is an instance of firejail running, and the package manager or
> myself attempt to add or remove an user or group (outside of the firejail
> sandbox) by using useradd or userdel and groupadd or groupdel I get the
> following:
> 
> useradd: failure while writing changes to /etc/passwd
> userdel: failure while writing changes to /etc/passwd
> groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
> groupdel: failure while writing changes to /etc/group

thank you for your report.
I just tried to reproduce it, but wasn't successful so far.
I ran 'firejail' as a user, and while it was running added successfully
a new user.
How exactly did you run into this issue?
What tool were you trying to run with which profile?

Regards,
  Reiner

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