Cannot add secondary group to user

Bug #1712312 reported by Joseph Borg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
snapd
Triaged
High
Unassigned
shadow (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I try and add 'docker' group as a secondary group to my user:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
usermod: /etc/group.2059: Read-only file system
usermod: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The shadow package needs to grow support for extrausers group handling.

Changed in snappy:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Michael Vogt (mvo)
affects: snappy → snapd
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