Bug 115239 - /etc/gshadow missing
Summary: /etc/gshadow missing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: i386 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2005-09-04 20:19 UTC by Gordon Banks
Modified: 2005-09-06 08:42 UTC (History)
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Description Gordon Banks 2005-09-04 20:19:16 UTC 
/etc/gshadow is a file necessary to create new groups with KUser.  It is missing
from Suse 10.0 beta 3.  If it is not present, KUser will complain and fail to
create a new group.  It is easy to create with just a comment in it and then
KUser works, but the user shouldn't have to do that, it should be there in the
distribution or if it isn't there, shouldn't KUser create it?
Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-09-05 08:25:01 UTC 
If there is no group shadow support, kuser should honor that and work only
with /etc/group.

Since nearly no tools supports /etc/gshadow (and most using it are buggy/never
tested), /etc/gshadow was removed long time ago.
Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-05 08:38:01 UTC 
kuser is in a very questionable state anyway, I wonder why we ship it.. we 
should just map it to the appropriate yast module IMHO.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-06 08:42:42 UTC 
as kuser is not part of our default installation, I only fixed this for KDE 
3.5