From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 19 2:15:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1259A37B403 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-card3-0-cust79.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([213.107.2.79] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15uVk4-0004JR-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:15:00 +0100 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15uVhi-000HrF-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:12:34 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:12:34 +0100 From: setantae To: Marcus Reid Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw deluser bug Message-ID: <20011019101234.A68421@rhadamanth> References: <20011018211505.C12587@blazingdot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011018211505.C12587@blazingdot.com>; from marcus@blazingdot.com on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:15:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:15:05PM -0700, Marcus Reid wrote: > If a numeric username is specified to `pw deluser' via `-n', and the > username doesn't exist, it will remove a user with the UID that matches > the number of the username that was specified. Fair enough, that sounds like a bug in pw(8). I suggest you submit a pr with send-pr(8). But the question has to be asked : Why the hell would you have all numeric userids ? Surely that's begging for trouble.... Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message