USERMOD troubles including obliterated password!?!

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Date: 14 Dec 2004 18:06:30 GMT

Whenever I use /usr/sbin/usermod the password for the user I alter gets
reset to something that noone knows.

I use usermod like this:

usermod -G "adm,audio,camera,cdrom,man,scanner,someuser,usb" -L someuser

[My list of groups is actually about twice that long; I trimmed it
to be polite about line wraps.]

Then as "someuser" I run /usr/bin/groups, which reports:

adm adm audio audio camera camera cdrom cdrom \
   man man scanner scanner someuser someuser usb usb

WHY would each group be listed twice?! If I reset the groups like this:

usermod -G "someuser" -L someuser

Then /usr/bin/groups reports "someuser" as the group exactly
once, which is what I expect.

After the usermod the next login by someuser doesn't work because
the password has been corrupted. I have to reset the user's
password as root with:

/usr/bin/passwd someuser

After that the user can again login.

The behavior of /usr/bin/groups is the same before and after
resetting the password, if that matters.

What's going on here?

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