adduser bug

[Mike Makonnen]

The problem is with pw(8). That's where it should be solved.

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:23:44 +0300 (WET)
Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese at tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> wrote:

> Well you can try that, run adduser and start adding a user and stop where
> it asks you for password. From another terminal add a user, then continue
> entering password. You will end up having 2 users with the same UID.
> 
> Evren
> 
> On 20 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese at tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> writes:
> > 
> > > I suspect that if 2 people try to use adduser script at the same time, the
> > > new user added might have the same UID value. ( and probably GID )
> > > Cant it be set so that the UID will be looked up from the password file
> > > when the file is locked or something? So the other adduser user have to
> > > wait until the file is free?
> > 
> > Isn't that the way it *already* works?
> > 
> 
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