[PATCH - RESEND] addgroup code cleanup, size reduction and feature enhancement
Aurelien Jacobs
aurel at gnuage.org
Thu Apr 5 10:42:56 UTC 2007
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:43:10 +0200
Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:33 +0200, Tito wrote:
>
> > 2) crippled function removal:
> > the current addgroup applet when called with 2 arguments
> > permits only to add an existing user to an still to be created group.
> > This seems to me a crippled behavior as it could be used just one time
> > at group creation time:
> >
> > root at localhost:~/Desktop/busybox.new# ./busybox_old addgroup prova tito
> > root at localhost:~/Desktop/busybox.new# ./busybox_old addgroup prova dina
> > addgroup: prova: group already in use
> >
> > 3) the above mentioned feature was re-added as optional
> > function enabled by ENABLE_FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP.
> > Now if called with two non-option arguments, addgroup will add an existing
> > user to an existing group like the full blown addgroup does (at least on my system).
>
> What system do you use? None of mine systems (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian,
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD) have an addgroup (or groupadd) that allows me to add a
> user to an existing group.
I've already used this feature at least on Debian and Ubuntu:
addgroup username groupname
which adds username into the existing groupname.
Aurel
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