Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 05:10:22 +0100 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Christopher Knight <merlin@ghostwheel.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: false error while adding user via sysinstall Message-ID: <19990114051022.A18149@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990113152543.1118A-100000@amber.ghostwheel.com>; from Christopher Knight on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:32:59PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990113152543.1118A-100000@amber.ghostwheel.com>
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On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:32:59PM -0800, Christopher Knight wrote: > 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. 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. I'll have a closer look at pw tomorrow (unless I see somebody having fixed it by then). -- bye, logix <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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