[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#71027: Is this bug still relevant?

[Ian Jackson]

Christian Perrier writes ("Bug#71027: Is this bug still relevant?"):
> This very old bug report against the shadow package is very probably
> impossible to reproduce. You seem to have goe in some kind of race
> condition we're probably unable to narrow down so late.

It didn't look like a race to me, rather a plain bug.

I would be happy for this report to be closed if usermode in the
current version of passwd is capable of executing
 usermod -G <group> <user>
but I think someone should test it ...

Ian.