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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:36:28 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10.2-BETA1: pw(8) does not support "pw useradd name -u 0"
Message-ID:  <20150713083628.GA37597@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <00BBEBAC-D7E2-4312-995B-93F7F0EDDD42@transactionware.com>
References:  <00BBEBAC-D7E2-4312-995B-93F7F0EDDD42@transactionware.com>

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 04:57:32PM +1000, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In our system build scripts we have this command:
> 
> /usr/sbin/pw -V $d useradd toor -u 0 -g 0 -d /root -s /bin/sh -c "Bourne-again Superuser" -g wheel -o
> 
> After 10.2-BETA1, the toor account is being added with UID 1001 instead of UID 0. This looks like a problem with line 754 in pw_user.c, which has this test:
> 
>         /*
>          * Check the given uid, if any
>          */
>         if (id > 0) {
>                 uid = (uid_t) id;
> 
>                 if ((pwd = GETPWUID(uid)) != NULL && conf.checkduplicate)
>                         errx(EX_DATAERR, "uid `%u' has already been allocated", pwd->pw_uid);
>         } else {
>                 struct bitmap   bm;
> 
> 
> The (id > 0) test should probably be (id >= 0) to allow “-u 0” to be passed on the command line.
> 
> This change is from r285092 by bapt@. Was this change in behaviour intentional?

Nope, I'll fix asap

Thanks for reporting

Best regards,
Bapt

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