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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:12:34 +0100
From:      setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pw deluser bug
Message-ID:  <20011019101234.A68421@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <20011018211505.C12587@blazingdot.com>; from marcus@blazingdot.com on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:15:05PM -0700
References:  <20011018211505.C12587@blazingdot.com>

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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

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