Bug 94752 – Incomplete group renaming in sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yuri Vasilevski (RETIRED) 2005-06-01 10:34:34 UTC]

The group renaming form 'slocate' to 'locate' should be done with:

# groupmod -n locate slocate

instead of:

# sed -i s/^slocate:/locate:/ /etc/group

As groupmod modifies both /etc/group and /etc/gshadow which should have
consistent information.

Yuri.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
# sed -i s/^slocate:/locate:/ /etc/group
# grep locate /etc/group  
locate:x:245:
# grep locate /etc/gshadow
slocate:::

Expected Results:  
# groupmod -n locate slocate
# grep locate /etc/group
locate:x:245:
# grep locate /etc/gshadow
locate:::

[Comment 1 Yuri Vasilevski (RETIRED) 2005-06-01 10:54:39 UTC]

Created attachment 60385 [details, diff]
ebuild patch

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-06-01 15:24:16 UTC]

thanks, that is a much better way to rename

added to portage