Bug 141454 - mkpasswd verbose option fails when userid not supplied
Summary: mkpasswd verbose option fails when userid not supplied
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: expect
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jens Petersen
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-01 09:02 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-03 05:14:12 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2004-12-01 09:02:50 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Running command "mkpasswd -v" fails with the message:

can't read "user": no such variable
    while executing
"puts -nonewline "password for $user is ""
    invoked from within
"if {$verbose} {
        puts -nonewline "password for $user is "
}"
    (file "/usr/bin/mkpasswd" line 212)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
expect-5.38.0-92.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Issue command "mkpasswd -v"
2.
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Actual Results:  See description above

Expected Results:  Command shold report generated password

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2004-12-03 04:24:45 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this.  As a first step I'm
building expect--5.42.1-2 in Fedora Core devel (rawhide)
for FC4.
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2005-10-03 05:14:12 UTC 
This will get fixed in RHEL 5.
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