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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:32:58 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 256554] /usr/bin/id -c returns current users's login class, not specified user's
Message-ID:  <bug-256554-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 256554
           Summary: /usr/bin/id -c returns current users's login class,
                    not specified user's
           Product: Base System
           Version: 13.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: asomers@FreeBSD.org

It's tempting to run "id -c somebody" to get somebody's login class.  Such =
an
invocation seems to work.  But it actually returns the login class of the
current user, not "somebody".  The man page and git history suggests that t=
his
is the intended behavior.  However, I believe it is a bug to accept and ign=
ore
a user argument.  Instead, id should return an error if a user is specified
along with "-c".

Steps to reproduce:
# Create a user with a non-default login class
> sudo pw useradd testy -L russian
# Try to lookup his login class.  It's wrong!
> id -c testy
default
# su to testy and lookup his current login class.  It's right.
> sudo su -m testy
% id -c
russian

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