Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:22:22 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Cch <cch@market.net.tw> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About pw command in FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <19990111082222.A38198@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <369993BF.E1602BD2@market.net.tw> References: <369993BF.E1602BD2@market.net.tw>
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Cch wrote:
> When I use the command:
> pw useradd master2 -u 2001 -c "test" -d "/home/user/master2" -g 0 -s
> "/bin/sh"
> in FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT, it halts and has no response. But this command
> works in FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE.
I beleive this was fixed within the last few days. If you don't want to
resup your sources, try this patch, which is the one which was commited:
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -p -u -r1.10 -r1.11
--- src/usr.sbin/pw/pw.c 1998/08/04 22:31:26 1.10
+++ /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw.c 1999/01/08 10:52:38 1.11
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#ifndef lint
static const char rcsid[] =
- "$Id: pw.c,v 1.10 1998/08/04 22:31:26 nate Exp $";
+ "$Id: pw.c,v 1.11 1999/01/08 10:52:38 davidn Exp $";
#endif /* not lint */
#include "pw.h"
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ static struct cargs arglist;
static int getindex(const char *words[], const char *word);
static void cmdhelp(int mode, int which);
-static void filelock(const char *filename);
int
@@ -150,12 +149,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
*/
cnf = read_userconfig(getarg(&arglist, 'C') ? getarg(&arglist, 'C')->val : NULL);
- /*
- * Try to lock the master passowrd and group files right away (we
- * don't care if it works, since this is just advisory locking.
- */
- filelock(_PATH_GROUP);
- filelock(_PATH_MASTERPASSWD);
ch = funcs[which] (cnf, mode, &arglist);
/*
@@ -186,11 +179,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
return ch;
}
-static void
-filelock(const char *filename)
-{
- open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK, 0);
-}
static int
getindex(const char *words[], const char *word)
--
Ben Smithurst
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