FWIW, it's not a regression as the behaviour is the same in Focal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shadow in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077883
Title: usermod silently fails modifying group membership for extrausers Status in shadow package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Release Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Release: 24.04 Codename: noble Package: passwd 1:4.13+dfsg1-4ubuntu3.2 When using the libnss-extrausers package to store users in a seperate DB at /var/lib/extrausers, the usermod program is unable to edit group memberships (usermod -a -G <groupname> <username>) Running group-modifying usermod command fails silently, no error is generated and the return code is 0, but there is no change at /var/lib/extrausers usermod DOES support some extrausers features, I can successfully change a user's GECOS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/2077883/+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
