[Bug 1331100] Re: The last line in /etc/groups - inactive

[Marc Deslauriers]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Title:
  The last line in /etc/groups - inactive

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ man groupadd -> shadow-utils 4.1.5.1

  
  # The last line in /etc/groups cannot be used 
  #
  sudo groupadd -g 65535 DUMMY
  [sudo] password for hannu:
  $ cat -net /etc/group  | tail -n 4
      67  vboxusers:x:127:hannu$
      68  nvidia-persistenced:x:128:$
      69  $
      70  DUMMY:x:65535:$

  # Without line 70
  # the color fprofiles of anything but the main display were not loaded at login (nvidia-337 ppa:xorg-edgers).
  # One had to manually do "System Settings > Color > double-click on erach profile to load"
  # Virtualbox 3.4.10 (USC) and 3.4.12 (oracle ppa) worked as they should with this setting.
  #
  # With lines 67 and 68 swapped, virtualbox didn't see USB devices.

  
  # WITH line 70.
  # Both works as inteded.

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