Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:14:56 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 192528] New: pwd_mkdb fails if /etc/shells contains duplicates Message-ID: <bug-192528-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192528 Bug ID: 192528 Summary: pwd_mkdb fails if /etc/shells contains duplicates Product: Base System Version: 10.0-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: Needs Triage Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: david.r.bliss@gmail.com Created attachment 145573 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=145573&action=edit /etc/shells with duplicate entries My FreeBSD 10 system stopped being able to add new users. The 'adduser' command would fail with "User 'username' disappeared during update". This was causing me much grief because service users required by packages would not be created which would prevent the associated service from starting. The cause was that the command "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" was aborting. The abort is apparently caused by duplicate entries in /etc/shells. My /etc/shells file contained many duplicates (attached). I removed all duplicates, and then the "pwd_mkdb" command was able to complete without aborting. I guess there are two problems here: 1) /etc/shells is populated with duplicates. I don't know what process did this. 2) pwd_mkdb fails if there are duplicates. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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