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*/: groupmems(8): Remove program#1601

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The utility is redundant for root and effectively broken for regular users across major distributions, its continued maintenance adds complexity for little to no benefit.

Closes: #1343

@ikerexxe ikerexxe marked this pull request as ready for review March 25, 2026 14:18
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LGTM. Thanks!

Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

The utility is redundant for root and effectively broken for regular
users across major distributions, its continued maintenance adds
complexity for little to no benefit.

Closes: shadow-maint#1343
Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Regenerate shadow-man-pages.pot to remove orphaned translation entries
and fix embedded temporary paths that were causing `msgmerge` failures
in CI.

Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
@ikerexxe ikerexxe merged commit 06b13c5 into shadow-maint:master Mar 31, 2026
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I've added this to release notes in #1451.

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Thank you for that Alejandro

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Deprecate and remove the groupmems utility

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