More Ubuntu-Core boot up problems...

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 7 13:01:54 UTC 2016


hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2016, 08:54 -0400 schrieb MikeB:
> On 2016-09-07 at 06:56:38 -0400, MikeB wrote:
> > 
> > However, when I try to add a new user, it fails as follows. I've
> > tried rebooting, etc, but that didn't change anything.
> New users have to be added to the extrausers files.
> 
> sudo adduser --extrausers <name>
> 
> works for adding a new user.
> 
> However, the usermod command does not have an '--extrausers' option. 
> All attempts to add my new user to the 'sudo' group fail with form of
> an error trying to lock '/etc/group'.
> 
> Oddly, even adduser can't add a user to an existing group.
> 
> sudo adduser --extrausers foo sudo
> Adding user `foo' to group `sudo' ...
> Adding user foo to group sudo
> gpasswd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
> adduser: `/usr/bin/gpasswd -a foo sudo' returned error code 1.
> Exiting.
> 
> That seems like a bug to me.
> 
no, thats a design limitation ... the sudo group has to be in
/etc/groups which is in the readonly snap ... 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1495059 has a workaround via
adding a file to /etc/sudoers.d/

ciao
	oli
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