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From: oui@jps.net
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Subject: rmuser rebuilds entire passwd datebase for single user
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>Number:         16798
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       rmuser rebuilds entire passwd datebase for single user
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 17 16:50:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 26 03:15:02 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 26 03:15:52 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Set Birkholz
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-19990702-STABLE #3
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
rmuser rebuilds entire database for passwd with rmuser.  On our system this takes about 5-10 minutes (ugh)

Excuse the bug if its already been addressed

>How-To-Repeat:
try rmuser
>Fix:
change
    system('/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb', '-p', ${new_passwd_file});
to
    system('/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb', '-u', ${login_name}, '-p', ${new_passwd_file});
in
    /usr/sbin/rmuser

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: oui@jps.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/16798: rmuser rebuilds entire passwd datebase for single user
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:02:27 +0200

 On Thu 2000-02-17 (16:41), oui@jps.net wrote:
 > >Number:         16798
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       rmuser rebuilds entire passwd datebase for single user
 
 > rmuser rebuilds entire database for passwd with rmuser.  On our system
 > this takes about 5-10 minutes (ugh)
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > try rmuser
 > >Fix:
 > change
 >     system('/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb', '-p', ${new_passwd_file});
 > to
 >     system('/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb', '-u', ${login_name}, '-p', ${new_passwd_file});
 > in
 >     /usr/sbin/rmuser
 
 Have you tested this change?  The code I added to pw does this:
 
 if (mode == UPD_DELETE)
 	rc = pwdb(NULL);
 else
 	rc = pwdb("-u", user, NULL);
 
 This is because pkg_mkdb -u login when deleting 'login' didn't work
 for me.
 
 Neil
 -- 
 Neil Blakey-Milner
 nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 26 03:15:02 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timed out, and my experience shows the suggestion shouldn't 
work properly. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16798 
>Unformatted:
