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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/40572: vipw prints silly message if $EDITOR fails
Message-ID:  <200207142141.g6ELfuHg023381@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         40572
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vipw prints silly message if $EDITOR fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 14 14:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ian Jackson
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
SGO
>Environment:
FreeBSD lsd.relativity.greenend.org.uk 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #49: Sun Jul 14 02:08:15 BST 2002     kaet@lsd.relativity.greenend.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/000004lsd  i386

>Description:
when the external EDITOR invoked by vipw fails (exits nonzero),
vipw prints a message involving strerror(errno), instead of the
exit status of the failed program.
>How-To-Repeat:
bash-2.05# EDITOR=false vipw
vipw: false: Operation not permitted
vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
bash-2.05# 

>Fix:
src/lib/libutil/pw_util.c:pw_edit and all its callers would have to
be changed to allow it other error returns besides -1 setting errno.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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