Bug 98912
| Summary: | redhat-config-users does not repliate symlinks from /etc/skel properly | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Joshua Penix <jpenix> |
| Component: | libuser | Assignee: | Miloslav Trmač <mitr> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:57:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Nalin says that this is a libuser problem. Changing components. Just for the record, I'm still able to reproduce this with Fedora Core 1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87572 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030530 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: If /etc/skel contains a symlink, redhat-config-users trips over it when creating new users. It doesn't error out, but if you look in the new user directories, the symlink will be linked to garbage as opposed to the intended directory. In some cases, the symlink garbage appears to contain the contents of other files found in skel. The same /etc/skel contents are successfully copied to new users created using the 'useradd' command line tool. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-users-1.1.5-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a symlink in /etc/skel. 'ln -s /var/www/html web' 2. Use redhat-config-users to create a new user 3. ls -al /home/<newuser> 4. Note broken symlink 5. Use 'useradd' to create another new user 6. ls -al /home/<newnewuser> 7. Note proper symlink Actual Results: [root@granite root]# ls -al /etc/skel/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 23:58 . drwxr-xr-x 60 root root 4096 Jul 9 23:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Apr 9 06:02 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Apr 9 06:02 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Apr 9 06:02 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 847 Feb 19 22:41 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120 Feb 26 15:15 .gtkrc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 9 22:54 web -> /var/www/html [root@granite root]# ls -al /home/test3 total 28 drwx------ 2 test3 test3 4096 Jul 9 23:59 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 9 23:59 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 test3 test3 24 Apr 9 06:02 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 test3 test3 191 Apr 9 06:02 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 test3 test3 124 Apr 9 06:02 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 test3 test3 847 Feb 19 22:41 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 test3 test3 120 Feb 26 15:15 .gtkrc lrwxrwxrwx 1 test3 test3 24 Jul 9 23:59 web -> /var/www/html?}@????D??? [root@granite root]# Expected Results: [root@granite root]# ls -al /home/test4/ total 28 drwx------ 2 test4 test4 4096 Jul 10 00:20 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jul 10 00:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 test4 test4 24 Jul 10 00:20 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 test4 test4 191 Jul 10 00:20 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 test4 test4 124 Jul 10 00:20 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 test4 test4 847 Jul 10 00:20 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 test4 test4 120 Jul 10 00:20 .gtkrc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 10 00:20 web -> /var/www/html Additional info: