ports/169953: spread and spread4 pkg-install port script breaks /etc/passwd

Marcello Coutinho marcellocoutinho at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 22:50:12 UTC 2012


>Number:         169953
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       spread and spread4 pkg-install port script breaks /etc/passwd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 17 22:50:11 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Marcello Coutinho
>Release:        8.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsd816.trf1.gov.br 8.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 00:39:29 UTC 2012     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
/bin/sh /usr/ports/net/spread/pkg-install spread-3.17.4 PRE-INSTALL
Added group "spread".
pw: user 'spread' disappeared during update
Adding user "spread" failed...
* Error code 1

After this, every pw user call results on errors

 pw useradd -n tom2 -s /sbin/nologin -m
pw: user 'tom2' disappeared during update
pw user add tom3 -s /sbin/nologin -m
pw: user 'tom3' disappeared during update


all next users with same id
spread:*:1001:1001:Spread User:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
teste:*:1001:1002:User &:/home/teste:/bin/sh
tom2:*:1001:1003:User &:/home/tom2:/sbin/nologin
tom3:*:1001:1004:User &:/home/tom3:/sbin/nologin


remove is not possible
 pw user del 1001
pw: no such uid `1001'
passwd spread
passwd: spread: no such user

>How-To-Repeat:
just try to install /usr/ports/net/spread
after the tests, using vipw, remove recent test users created
>Fix:
just remove the "-h -" from line 33 of pkg-install from both packages

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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