Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.14-9 Severity: normal When issuing the command usermod as root, I get:
-------------------------------------------------- usermod Usage: usermod [options] login Options: -a, --append GROUP append the user to the supplemental GROUP ... other options -G, --groups GROUPS list of supplementary GROUPS -------------------------------------------------- I would interpret it the following way: if I want the user dimitri to be part of the group src, I should type: > usermod -a src dimitri In reality, I have to type: > usermod -a -G src dimitri The man page mentions (option -G): -------------------------------------------------- If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group. This behaviour can be changed via -a option, which appends user to the current supplementary group list. -------------------------------------------------- In my opinion, it would be better to say that -a must be used in combination with -G in order to add a group to a user. In the usage, it looks as if -a were a standalone option, which is not true. Dimitri Note : I changed my locale to en_US, so that the output is better understandable, but the translation has the same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries ii login 1:4.0.14-9 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: * passwd/username: dimitri passwd/password-empty: * passwd/md5: true passwd/user-uid: * passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: * passwd/user-fullname: Debian User * passwd/make-user: true passwd/title: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
