[Bug 1647333] Re: adduser misses extrausers support for group management

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Title:
  adduser misses extrausers support for group management

Status in Snappy:
  New
Status in adduser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in shadow package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  trying to add a user to a group in /var/lib/extrausers by using the
  --extrausers option results in a "group not found" error despite
  adduser being supposed to be able to do this kind of modification.

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