bin/50331 Changing uid with pw causes duplicate username/uid pairs.

A. Blake Cooper blake at cluebie.net
Thu Mar 27 10:10:48 PST 2003


The following reply was made to PR bin/50331; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "A. Blake Cooper" <blake at cluebie.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc: kevin_stevens at pursued-with.net
Subject: Re: bin/50331 Changing uid with pw causes duplicate username/uid pairs.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:09:11 -0600

 As you mention it's a side-effect of how 'pwd_mkdb -u' functions.  If you
 want pw to completely rebuild the passwd db's on every run, then update
 the pw source file pwupd.c and change the '#define HAVE_PWDB_U 1' to
 '#define HAVE_PWDB_U 0'.
 
 Blake
 
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 A. Blake Cooper <blake at cluebie.net>


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