[Bug 269193] pw(8) usermod: numeric ID (uid) in lieu of name for option -n
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:30:29 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269193
Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Component|misc |Manual Pages
See Also| |https://reviews.freebsd.org
| |/D2700
Version|CURRENT |Latest
URL| |https://cgit.freebsd.org/sr
| |c/tree/usr.sbin/pw/
CC| |doc@FreeBSD.org,
| |dteske@FreeBSD.org
Product|Base System |Documentation
Summary|manpage for pw seems |pw(8) usermod: numeric ID
|unclear for usermod and the |(uid) in lieu of name for
|use of -n name |option -n
Status|New |Open
Severity|Affects Only Me |Affects Some People
Flags| |maintainer-feedback?(dteske
| |@FreeBSD.org)
--- Comment #1 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> ---
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+14.0-CURRENT#USER_OPTIONS>
> … [-n] … Required … can be a uid. …
(In reply to Dennis Clarke from comment #0)
I have the same interpretation of what's in the manual page.
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # pw usermod -n 1002 -s sh
pw: no such user `1002'
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # pw usermod -s sh -n 1002
pw: no such user `1002'
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # pw usermod -u 1002 -s sh
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # pw usermod -s tcsh -n grahamperrin
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # uname -KU
1400078 1400078
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # tail -n 2 /var/log/userlog
2023-01-28 11:43:28 [root:usermod] grahamperrin(1002):grahamperrin(1002):Graham
Perrin:/home/grahamperrin:/bin/sh
2023-01-28 11:43:50 [root:usermod] grahamperrin(1002):grahamperrin(1002):Graham
Perrin:/home/grahamperrin:/bin/tcsh
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ #
dteske@ please are we misinterpreting? Or has there been a change in behaviour
of the command?
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