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>Number:         9285
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pw strips comments from group file
>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 Jan  3 06:00:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matt Behrens
>Organization:
zigg.com
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386
>Environment:

2.2.8-STABLE, last cvsupped Jan 1, 1999

>Description:

Using pw userdel on accounts usually rewrites the groupfile.  While
all data is intact, comments are stripped, as illustrated in the
next morning's report the day after I issued "pw userdel wedding":

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:00:01 -0500 (EST)
From: System Account <root>

-- SNIP --

Backup passwd and group files:
-- SNIP --
megaweapon group diffs:
1,2d0
< #	$Id: group,v 1.13.2.4 1998/09/13 23:10:08 brian Exp $
< #
40d37
< wedding:*:30001:

-- SNIP --

pw itself does not seem to fail due to comments in the group file.

>How-To-Repeat:

Add comments to the group file, then run pw with (theoretically)
any command that requires modification of the group file.

>Fix:

No workaround is known.

pw should be patched to leave comments in the group file alone.
This is regrettably beyond my skill for now.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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