Adduser devel - Feb 2006 - Bug#353032: adduser: Adduser tries to print new system user ID before it''s defined

Package: adduser
Version: 3.83
Severity: minor

Hi,

If adduser is called with the --system option without a specific UID, it
complains "Use of uninitialized value in printf" (note the 3rd and 4th
lines below).

benjo (sid)[2]:/home/kmccarty# adduser --system --ingroup nogroup --home /tmp
bar
adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 334.
Adding system user `bar'' with uid ...
Adding new user `bar'' (107) with group `nogroup''.
The home directory `/tmp'' already exists.  Not copying from
`/etc/skel''
adduser: Warning: that home directory does not belong to the user you are
currently creating

The problem is that line 334 of the adduser script tries to print the
new UID before it is defined on lines 336 and following.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.14-6 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-2    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

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

regards,

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Hi Kevin

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:44:28PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty
wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.83
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If adduser is called with the --system option without a specific UID, it
> complains "Use of uninitialized value in printf" (note the 3rd
and 4th
> lines below).
I already spotted this failure and committed the fix to subversion. adduser
3.84 won''t have this bug anymore.

J?rg


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tags #353032 confirmed pending
thanks

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:12:01PM +0100, Joerg Hoh
wrote:
> I already spotted this failure and committed the fix to subversion. adduser
> 3.84 won''t have this bug anymore.
Tagging appropriately.

Greetings
Marc

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