[TriLUG] Useradd issues

[Jeff Bollinger]

Has anyone seen the error with RedHat 7.3 where when you first run
'useradd' to create a default user environment it doesn't save the -g
(group) option?

By default, when you run useradd followed by the userid, the a new user
AND a new group are created (usually with the same name).  I ran the
following:

useradd -D -g 100 -b /export/home -s /sbin/nologin

and that successfully created /etc/defaults/useradd (though there is also
an identical file called /etc/defaults/useradd- )

However, now when I create a new user account with:

#useradd userid

everything works fine except a new group still gets created, and my new
user does NOT belong to gid 100 (as specified in the above command and in
/etc/defaults/useradd).  I can't figure out why everything else works
except for the -g flag.  Any ideas?

Thanks as always!
Jeff