adduser is actually calling groupadd in the backend ... adding the shadow package as well..
** Also affects: shadow (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to adduser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1647333 Title: adduser misses extrausers support for group management Status in Snappy: New Status in adduser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in shadow package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: trying to add a user to a group in /var/lib/extrausers by using the --extrausers option results in a "group not found" error despite adduser being supposed to be able to do this kind of modification. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1647333/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp