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From: merlin@ghostwheel.com
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Subject: bin/9484: False error while adding a user, whose uid begins with a number, via sysinstall
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>Number:         9484
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       False error while adding a user, whose uid begins with a number, via sysinstall
>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:   Thu Jan 14 00:50:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christopher Knight
>Release:        3.0-current (cvsup'd on 01/10/99)
>Organization:
Bohemian Adventurer
>Environment:
FreeBSD shadows.ghostwheel.com 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jan 10 10:43:20 PST 1999 merlin@shadows.ghostwheel.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHADOWS  i386
>Description:
I was trying to add a user named '2grnflcn' to my system via
/stand/sysinstall and was given the error that this user already exists.

Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> followed up on my mailing to the 
freebsd-current mailing list with the following information:

> The error is somewhere in pw(8) - from a quick point of view it
> seems as if pw will assume that a user with a loginname starting
> with a digit has that UID, so in your case pw (which is called by
> sysinstall) found that the user you specified already existed and
> had the the UID 2.
> This clearly is a bug, you might file a PR on this topic.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attemt to use /stand/sysinstall to create a user whose username begins 
with the digits of a UID that already exists.  ie '2blowup' '9mine' etc.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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