Public bug reported:
On Ubuntu Core 24 calling the command line
useradd --extrausers --groups somegroup somenewuser
... fails with:
useradd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
It worked on 22.04. /etc is not writable. It also fails if somegroup is
a group in extrausers.
** Affects: shadow (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063200
Title:
useradd --extrausers --groups tries to lock /etc/group
Status in shadow package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
On Ubuntu Core 24 calling the command line
useradd --extrausers --groups somegroup somenewuser
... fails with:
useradd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
It worked on 22.04. /etc is not writable. It also fails if somegroup
is a group in extrausers.
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