[CLUE-Tech] groupadd, usermod, etc. prompting root to enter password

[David Anselmi]

Matt Gushee wrote:
> This is weird ...
> 
> I updated some packages on my laptop the other day, and now I get this:
> 
>     # groupadd -g 29 audio
>     Password: 
> 
>     [ and if I enter a password, it prompts me for a new password,
>       as if I had invoked 'passwd' ]
> 
> Say wha?

Did you look at any docs about how groupadd is supposed to work?  Google 
seems to think that groupadd puts a password hash in /etc/gshadow, 
perhaps for use with the newgrp command.  Probably you can leave it 
blank and get the behavior you expect.

Dave