useradd fails if user primary group is already supplementary group

[jgainey]

Cookbook version

1.6.1

Chef-client version

11.8.12

Platform Details

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)

Scenario:

• create user myboss, primary group is myboss
• create user admin, primary group admin
• supplementary group admin, group members myboss
• useradd will fail

Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed ------------------------------------ Expected process to exit with [0], but received '9' ---- Begin output of ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] ---- STDOUT: STDERR: useradd: group admin exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g. ---- End output of ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] ---- Ran ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] returned 9

Steps to Reproduce:

• create a data bag called users with two users: admin.js: { "id": "admin", "comment": "Application Admin", "groups": [ "admin" ] } myboss.js: { "id": "myboss", "comment": "My Boss", "groups": ["myboss"] }

• user users_manage to create user and then group to define a supplementary group inside of a recipe: users_manage "myboss" do data_bag 'users' action [:create] end users_manage "admin" do data_bag 'users' action [:create] end group "admin" do append true group_name "admin" members "myboss" action [:create, :modify] end

Expected Result:

/etc/passwd: mboss:x:501:501:My Boss:/home/myboss:/bin/bash admin:x:502:502:Application Admin:/home/admin:/bin/bash

/etc/group: myboss:x:501: admin:x:502:myboss

$ id admin uid=502(admin) gid=502(admin) groups=502(admin)

$ id myboss uid=501(myboss) gid=501(myboss) groups=501(myboss),502(admin)

Actual Result:

chef-client log Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed ------------------------------------ Expected process to exit with [0], but received '9' ---- Begin output of ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] ---- STDOUT: STDERR: useradd: group admin exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g. ---- End output of ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] ---- Ran ["useradd", "-c", "Application Admin", "-d", "/home/admin", "-m", "admin"] returned 9

/etc/passwd: mboss:x:501:501:My Boss:/home/myboss:/bin/bash

/etc/group: myboss:x:501: admin:x:502:myboss

$ id admin id: admin: No such user

$ id myboss uid=501(myboss) gid=501(myboss) groups=501(myboss),502(admin)

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