F16: user's secondary groups ignored

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:36:13AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 17:19 +1100, Masood wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > On a fresh install of F16, I have added "wheel" as a secondary group
> > for a user using "# usermod -a -G wheel masood". 
> > 
> > 
> > I have verified that "/etc/group" has the correct entry and
> > "system-config-users" shows that user "masood" belongs to "wheel"
> > group. However, "$ groups" only lists user's primary group and the
> > user is unable to run any command as "wheel".
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a different way to do this in F16 or something is broken on
> > my installation?
> 
> Just Glibc Update Comedy Hour again.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745675
> 
> downgrade to glibc -10 fixes it.

Why is glibc development apparently happening along the f16 branch,
while 'master' (Rawhide) is some old version not updated since July 21?

This is totally not how it's supposed to be ...

Rich.

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