9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall - new user group

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 28 04:36:24 UTC 2011


On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Peter wrote:

> Doing a fresh install of 9.0RC2 [amd64].
>
> Add User Accounts -> Yes
>
> [stuff between '*' is my input/answers]
>
> Username: *peter*
> Full name: *P*
> UID: [default]
> Login group [peter]: *admin*
> Group admin does not exist!
> Login group [peter]: *ENTER*
> Login group is peter. Invite peter into other groups? []?
> .
> ..
> ....
>
> Why can the installer create a new login group 'peter' but not a new login
> group 'admin' ?.
>  [when adding second user, I can input Login Group of 'peter' without any
> problems, or third user can create a group name of its name, but still
> no 'admin' group unless I add an 'admin' user].

This looks roughly like
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/161100
so I wouldn't open a new PR for it.

Thanks for the testing and bug reports.

-Ben Kaduk


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