Many user management commands do not support extrausers
Bug #1627816 reported by
Michael Berger
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libnss-extrausers (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Core)
ubuntu-core 16.04.1 Rev 742 (edge)
In Ubuntu-Core, new users can only be added into the --extrausers database; the default users databse is located in a read-only filesystem.
The user management 'add' commands do support the --extrausers database, but the 'del' and 'mod' commands do not. This makes it possible to add a user in Ubuntu-Core, but unable to perform any other user management since the rest of the commands do not support --extrausers.
--extrausers supported: adduser, useradd, addgroup,
--extrausers not supported: usermod, deluser, passwd, delgroup, chage
Please enhance all user management commands to support --extrausers.
Revision history for this message
| Michael Berger (mabnhdev) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Many user management commands do not suppot extrausers + Many user management commands do not support extrausers |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in libnss-extrausers (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Additionally, you can not use 'adduser --extrausers USER GROUP' to add an existing user to an existing group since the command seems to ignore the --extrausers and attempts to modify the default group database.