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From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+gnats@pelleg.org>
Subject: Re: bin/43582: passwd(1) fails on nonexistent users
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The following reply was made to PR bin/43582; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+gnats@pelleg.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: bin/43582: passwd(1) fails on nonexistent users
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:50:58 -0400

 I'd have loved to post a patch, but my library debugging skills are not up
 to it. 
 
 FWIW, the best I could come up with is that the getpwnam call in line 201
 of src/usr.bin/passwd/local_passwd.c does not seem to fail, but rather
 returns a passwd struct with empty pw_name and zero pw_uid.
 
 I wasn't able to track down any deeper, except for realizing the problem is
 probably "somewhere in _getyppass".
 
 System is compiled with YP and KERBEROS.

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