from a group without the need to perform the same operation by replacing
the existing list via the '-M' option. The '-M' option requires someone
to fetch the existing members with pw, deleting the undesired members from
the list and sending the altered list back to pw.
Approved by: wes (mentor)
MFC after: 5 days
the user's newly created home directory. If omitted, it's derived
from the current umask.
PR: bin/16880, bin/83253 (partially), bin/104248
MFC in: 1 month
-d option was equal to the one already saved and which caused
the pw utility to avoid updating values passed by other options
processed before the -d option in the code path.
Spotted by: Richard Caley <rjc@interactive.co.uk>
data buffering issue that corrupts files if two pw(8)'s run at the
same time as well as changing pw(8) so it uses the same locking
mechanism as PAM, vipw(8), pwd_mkdb(8), etc.
PR: bin/23501
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex (at) kapran (dot) bitmcnit (dot) bryansk (dot) su>
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
MFC after: 5 days
or group name (mainly for the benefit of samba). This pretty much rewrites
he pw_checkname() routine, but should work exactly the same except for the
above change, and that error messages are somewhat more informative.
PR: 28733 46890
Inspired by: example patch written by Terry Lambert
Reviewed by: no objections on freebsd-arch and freebsd-current
MFC plans: no plans, but will do if people want it in stable.
This patch explains -F for usershow and groupshow. Because "groupmod
... -F" doesn't do anything, the patch also drops that from groupmod's
command line args.
PR: 35955
Submitted by: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@radioactivedata.org>
mail, if configured to do so. Some sites have setups where the user's
mail is delivered to their home directory, so sending mail before is
exists didn't work.
PR: 29892
assignment of `l' in `gr_update' to the return value of snprintf. It
claimed to have fixed the case where snprintf returned -1--in fact, it
broke the entire routine. Not setting `l' here causes fileupdate() to
invariably fail with EINVAL because it does its own check to assert
that the parameter isn't -1.
