misc/156092: pw user flag -m does not respect custom home directory locations

[Lance Leger]

>Number:         156092
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       pw user flag -m does not respect custom home directory locations
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 31 14:40:09 UTC 2011
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>Originator:     Lance Leger
>Release:        8.1-RELEASE-p2
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>Description:
I've got an installation running from mfsroot with custom home directory locations on a seperate ufs filesystem and when I attempt to issue a "pw user mod <username> -m" command, pw gives me the following error:

pw: mkdir '/home': Read-only file system

Two issues here:

1) /home does not even exist on my system
2) the users custom home directory location is clearly defined in /etc/passwd

Now if I re-mount my mfsroot filesystem read-write, issue mkdir /home, then attempt to issue same command again it creates my users custom home directory (i.e. /d/home/user)

Another observation. If I leave the /home directory in place, re-mount my mfsroot filesystem read-only again, then attempt to issue the same command again it works (even though it has a reason now to complain that /home is read-only)
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