Debian Bug report logs - #471705
passwd: deluser weirdness; uninit value

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: passwd: deluser weirdness; uninit value

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:14 -0400

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7
Severity: normal

$ sudo useradd useradd
$ grep useradd /etc/passwd
useradd:x:1004:1007::/home/useradd:/bin/sh
$ sudo deluser useradd
Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/sbin/deluser line 228.
WARNING: You are just about to delete the root account (uid 0)
Usually this is never required as it may render the whole system unusable
Press immediately Ctrl+C if you want to abort
Ok, you really want it, I'll delete that account
Removing user `useradd' ...
Warning: group `useradd' has no more members.
Done.
$ grep root /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

There was no delay for me to ^C (or otherwise the delay wasn't long
enough to read and reread that surprising message).  Presumably the
error message (apparently a false-positive) is due to the
uninitialized value.

Message #10 received at 471705@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>

To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>, 471705@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#471705: passwd: deluser weirdness; uninit value

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:36:43 +0100

forcemerge 469165 471705
thanks

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:20:14PM -0400, justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> $ sudo useradd useradd
> $ grep useradd /etc/passwd
> useradd:x:1004:1007::/home/useradd:/bin/sh
> $ sudo deluser useradd
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/sbin/deluser line 228.
> WARNING: You are just about to delete the root account (uid 0)
> Usually this is never required as it may render the whole system unusable
> Press immediately Ctrl+C if you want to abort
> Ok, you really want it, I'll delete that account

The problem is in deluser, not userdel.

It looks like #469165, which has a patch and should be fixed in the next
adduser release.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral

Message #19 received at 471705-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 471705-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#471705: fixed in adduser 3.107

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:17:03 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.107

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.107.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107.dsc
adduser_3.107.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107.tar.gz
adduser_3.107_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 471705@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:43:30 +0000
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.107
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 469165 470464 470847 471705 471903 472349
Changes: 
 adduser (3.107) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * deluser: fix really annoying message about removing root account when removing
     just a simple user. (Closes: #469165, #470464, #470847, #471705, #472349)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Translations:
     - eu (thanks Piarres Beobide <pi@beobide.net>)(closes: #471903)
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