So, this is strange as all get out. Moving our off-site Linux VM's from AWS and Azure, or rather trying to. Me and another of my guys are having a strange issue on the Ubuntu (both 12.04 and 14.04) VM's where we go to add a user, or add a user to a group we get the following error:
adminuser@web01-05:~$ sudo usermod -G www-data devuser
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
I'm a bit of an old *nix salt, and I've never seen this before and can't find much on Google. It does indeed directly impact actual usability as the user does get added to the group, but can't actually do anything with the group permissions.
Right now it's a bit of a hangup on our Azure deployment as without this seemingly critical little piece, we can't go a lot further.
Anyone run into it? Tested as being an issue with the 12.04 and 14.04 images on Azure.
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