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Subject: bin/17877: Cannot change login group with "pw usermod -g" (on FreeBSD 4.0 only)
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>Number:         17877
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Cannot change login group with "pw usermod -g" (on FreeBSD 4.0 only)
>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 Apr  9 03:30:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Pius Fischer
>Release:        4.0-20000208-CURRENT
>Organization:
Zyan Communications
>Environment:
FreeBSD axilla2.zyan.com 4.0-20000208-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-20000208-CURRENT #0: Fri Feb 18 14:54:38 PST 2000     pius@axilla2.zyan.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/AXILLA2  i386

>Description:
Due to the changes made in revision 1.33 of pw_user.c,
"pw usermod <user> -g <group>" can no longer be used to change
a user's login group.

>How-To-Repeat:
On a FreeBSD 4.0 system, try to use "pw usermod <user> -g <group>"
to change the login group of a user.

>Fix:
A simple patch:

=cut=
--- usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c.orig	Fri Jan 14 16:20:21 2000
+++ usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c	Sat Apr  8 23:41:26 2000
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
 			gid_t newgid = (gid_t) GETGRNAM(cnf->default_group)->gr_gid;
 			if (newgid != pwd->pw_gid) {
 				edited = 1;
-				pwd->pw_gid = pwd->pw_gid;
+				pwd->pw_gid = newgid;
 			}
 		}
 
=cut=


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