Bug 2476 - HOWTO suggests usermod -G for adding a group, this will remove all other group memberships
Summary: HOWTO suggests usermod -G for adding a group, this will remove all other grou...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba Web
Classification: Unclassified
Component: content (show other bugs)
Version: current
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John H Terpstra (mail address dead(
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URL: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/S...
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Reported: 2005-03-17 11:34 UTC by Thomas Boutell
Modified: 2005-03-24 01:07 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Boutell 2005-03-17 11:34:03 UTC 
The HOWTO recommends this command in the simple tdbsam PDC setup's version of
smb.conf:

add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u

According to "man usermod" -G must be followed by a comma-separated list of ALL
groups other than the user's default group. Any groups memberships not
explicitly listed will be lost. This is not the correct way to "add" a group.
Also there is no "remove user from group script" option given.
Comment 1 Deryck Hodge 2005-03-17 11:50:26 UTC 
Handing off to jht since it's docs related.
Comment 2 John H Terpstra (mail address dead( 2005-03-24 01:07:10 UTC 
Fixed.

- John T.