Bug 461455
Summary: | newusers will fail with an uninformative message if the new user's parent directory does not exist | ||||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Michael Kearey <mkearey> | ||||||
Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 5.2 | CC: | dmair, jplans, mmalik, pdwyer, sgrubb, tao | ||||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
Clone Of: | |||||||||
: | 586330 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||||
Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:13:22 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Bug Depends On: | |||||||||
Bug Blocks: | 499522, 586330 | ||||||||
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Description
Michael Kearey
2008-09-08 07:16:41 UTC
Created attachment 316050 [details]
patch to resolve newusers error message
Patch to man page for 'newusers' command.
Patch for newusers command to alter the error returned if parent directory of the new user's home directory does not exist.
Created attachment 317339 [details]
Patch to add error message and change man pages
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?". An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0209.html |