bin/50331: Changing uid with pw causes duplicate user name uid
pairs.
Jason A. Young
jyoung at power.doogles.com
Wed Sep 3 00:10:09 PDT 2003
The following reply was made to PR bin/50331; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Jason A. Young" <jyoung at power.doogles.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,
<kevin_stevens at pursued-with.net>
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/50331: Changing uid with pw causes duplicate user name uid
pairs.
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 02:09:13 -0500 (CDT)
This is not replicable on HEAD, probably since 4/28/03 with rev 1.42 of
pwd_mkdb, which reworked the logic dealing with uid changes. The issue
most likely still exists in 4.x.
fury# pw user add -n fred -u 1010 -m
fury# id -P fred
fred:*:1010:1010::0:0:User &:/home/fred:/bin/sh
fury# ls -lad /home/fred
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred fred 512 Sep 3 02:05 /home/fred
fury# pw user mod fred -u 1005
fury# id -P fred
fred:*:1005:1010::0:0:User &:/home/fred:/bin/sh
fury# ls -lad /home/fred
drwxr-xr-x 2 1010 fred 512 Sep 3 02:05 /home/fred
fury# id -P 1005
fred:*:1005:1010::0:0:User &:/home/fred:/bin/sh
fury# id -P 1010
id: 1010: no such user
fury# grep 1010 /etc/master.passwd
fred:*:1005:1010::0:0:User &:/home/fred:/bin/sh
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Jason Young, CCIE #8607, MCSE
Sr. Network Technician, WAN Technologies
(314)817-0131
http://www.wantec.com
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