"pw useradd -D -e" writes bogus expire_days value into pw.conf

Yuri Pankov yuripv at gmx.com
Sun Nov 5 12:14:20 UTC 2017


On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 19:09:14 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Yuri Pankov wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:32:22 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>> Could anyone please reproduce this bug, especially on an 11.x and 12.x
>>> branches? Or is it just me?
>>>
>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223431
>>
>> Yes, it's the same on -CURRENT, but as the man page says, argument to -e
>> must be numeric in presence of -D, so most likely it just needs an
>> additional check.
> 
> Hmm, even with a numeric argument it sets the expiry date incorrectly in
> newly created accounts, see the "Expire" line below:

Indeed, guess there are a lot more bugs to fixed here :-)

- `pw useradd -D -e 0` doesn't reset the value in pw.conf
- man page doesn't say that `pw useradd -D -p days` should be treated 
the same as -D -e


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