Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:46:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: concurrent pw(8) corrupts master.passwd sometimes? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10205021326060.41967-100000@speicher.org>
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``Sometimes'' being the operative word. I am not able to reliably reproduce it, but it sure does happen. I don't know for sure that it is the fault of pw, but that's what I'm trying to determine. Here's the scenario: a user visits a web site and fills out a form to create an account with the site. When they press submit, a record is inserted into a database table holding their account information. This triggers a call to 'pw adduser ...' on the local machine so they have a home directory to store files and a personal email account. Usually it works fine, but under some circumstances master.passwd is left short, sometimes in the middle of a record. Anyone have any ideas that might save me some time while I'm looking at the pw sources? I'm starting to wonder if I should run 'nohup pw adduser ...'. (Please CC me on reply.) Thanks, Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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