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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:10:33 -0600 (CST)
From:      dannyman <dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/5715: pw: "pwd_mkdb: illegal option -- c"
Message-ID:  <199802110510.XAA21214@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>

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>Number:         5715
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pw fails with "pwd_mkdb: illegal option -- c"
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 10 21:20:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     dannyman
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

relevant line from /etc/group;
tunji:*:1008:

there is no /etc/pw.conf

>Description:

# pw adduser tunji -u 1008 -g 1008 -s /usr/local/bin/tcsh -w random
pwd_mkdb: illegal option -- c
usage: pwd_mkdb [-c] [-p] [-d <dest dir>] [-u <local username>] file
pw: password update: Input/output error

>How-To-Repeat:

Upon creating an /etc/pw.conf with similar options, same result with;
pw adduser tunji -u 1008 -g 1008
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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