Zorro, ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- >> It turned out that the test failed because the user "fsgqa" did not have the >> "fsgqa" group assigned. >> After rectifying this, the test passed successfully. > > OK, so you've found out why it's failed :) Yeah, but took me more time than it should. ;-) >> >> But it is nowhere stated that this has to be that way. >> >> README says only: >> 6. (optional) Create fsgqa test users and groups: >> >> $ sudo useradd -m fsgqa >> $ sudo useradd 123456-fsgqa >> $ sudo useradd fsgqa2 >> $ sudo groupadd fsgqa >> >> Just in case, users fsgqa and fsgqa2 want the groups fsgqa/fsgqa2 as their >> primary groups >> to have all tests work as expected? > > Actually above steps aren't exact enough. It depends on a default behavior > of useradd command -- "By default, a group will also be created for the > new user" (from `man useradd`) > > And according to the manual: > > -g, --gid GROUP > The name or the number of the user's primary group. The group name must exist. A > group number must refer to an already existing group. > > If not specified, the behavior of useradd will depend on the USERGROUPS_ENAB > variable in /etc/login.defs. If this variable is set to yes (or -U/--user-group > is specified on > the command line), a group will be created for the user, with the same name as > her loginname. If the variable is set to no (or -N/--no-user-group is specified > on the command > line), useradd will set the primary group of the new user to the value specified > by the GROUP variable in /etc/default/useradd, or 1000 by default. > > You said "After migrating to a new test environment", I don't know what's > your new test env. Maybe your USERGROUPS_ENAB isn't set to yes by default, > or your useradd has an alias "useradd -N", or any other reasons. SUSE Linux has traditionally not set USERGROUPS_ENAB, this explains the issue. The old setup was not SUSE based. > Anyway if you hope to make sure each fsgqa users is assigned to their > own group, how about: > > $ groupadd fsgqa > $ useradd -m -g fsgqa fsgqa > $ groupadd fsgqa2 > $ useradd -g fsgqa2 fsgqa2 > $ groupadd 123456-fsgqa > $ useradd -g 123456-fsgqa 123456-fsgqa Sounds good! It is verbose but that way everybody will know and it will work on "strange" systems too. Thanks, //richard
