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Handle groupadd in Ubuntu 24.04 #9502

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Currently, the members attribute of Resource Type: group is not functioning in Ubuntu.
Starting from Ubuntu 24.04, the shadow package has been upgraded to 4.13: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow. This update allows the groupadd and groupmod commands to modify members in the same way that Puppet already uses for Fedora, as detailed here: #9346.

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root@dev:~# groupadd --help
Usage: groupadd [options] GROUP

Options:
  -f, --force                   exit successfully if the group already exists,
                                and cancel -g if the GID is already used
  -g, --gid GID                 use GID for the new group
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -K, --key KEY=VALUE           override /etc/login.defs defaults
  -o, --non-unique              allow to create groups with duplicate
                                (non-unique) GID
  -p, --password PASSWORD       use this encrypted password for the new group
  -r, --system                  create a system account
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -P, --prefix PREFIX_DI        directory prefix
  -U, --users USERS             list of user members of this group
      --extrausers              Use the extra users database

root@dev:~# groupmod --help
Usage: groupmod [options] GROUP

Options:
  -a, --append                  append the users mentioned by -U option to the group
                                without removing existing user members
  -g, --gid GID                 change the group ID to GID
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -n, --new-name NEW_GROUP      change the name to NEW_GROUP
  -o, --non-unique              allow to use a duplicate (non-unique) GID
  -p, --password PASSWORD       change the password to this (encrypted)
                                PASSWORD
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -P, --prefix PREFIX_DIR       prefix directory where are located the /etc/* files
  -U, --users USERS             list of user members of this group

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