[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#450719: Bug#450719: passwd: usermod --append option is not recognized as valid

[Christian Perrier]

notfound 450719 4.0.18.2-1
thanks

Quoting Tim Miller Dyck (editor at canadianmennonite.org):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> usermod --append --groups cmstaff editor
> 
> 	gives the usage screen and does not do the change, but
> 
> usermod -a --groups cmstaff editor
> 
> 	works correctly.


I actually can't reproduce this in the version in unstable. The
changelog(s) do not give any cllue about changes affecting this but I
know that here and there long options were'nt working
properly. Perhaps this was fixed but not correctly documented.

Nicolas?

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