Adduser devel - Apr 2006 - Bug#363182: Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.

Package: adduser
Version: 3.86
Severity: minor

adduser reports:
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.
whenever the cleanup function is called.

This is because of a misplaced close bracket.

A patch to fix this problem is attached.

Example run:
# adduser --system --debug test123
Selecting uid from range 100 to 999.
Adding system user `test123'' with uid 108...
Adding new user `test123'' (108) with group `nogroup''.
/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/test123 -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 108
test123
/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 test123
Creating home directory `/home/test123''.
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.
Stopped:
Removing directory `/home/test123''
rm -rf /home/test123
Removing user `test123''.
userdel test123

-Ted

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.15-5 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-4    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:12:23AM +1000, Ted Percival
wrote:
> This is because of a misplaced close bracket.
Obviously. Thanks for spotting this, committed to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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