Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:47:48 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:37:01AM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
>Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Always prints the standard well-known users, even when just requesting a
>> single user's entry:
>> 
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 VMWARE-XP 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i686 Cygwin
>> 
>> $ mkpasswd -l -u cwilson
>> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
>> LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19::
>> NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20::
>> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>> cwilson:unused:1036:513:cwilson,U-VMWARE-XP\cwilson,S-1-5-21-3395897280-1512205858-4128055458-1036:/home/cwilson:/bin/bash
>> 
>> So, after running (a modified) ssh-host-config on a clean system --
>> which added sshd and cyg_server users -- I now have three copies of
>> SYSTEM et. al. in my /etc/passwd.  So, iu-config complained loudly.
>> 
>> --
>> Chuck
>
>This one I can reproduce.  Normally I would say to post a cygcheck.out
>file however it seems that you couldn't do that according to your other
>post.  I would still like to see what you can get from it however.  I
>will attach the same cygcheck that I did on the other post.
>
>I will also expand on this.
>
>`mkpasswd` starts listing then segfaults.  Backtrace and gdb debug
>output attached from this as well as the stackdump file
>
>Somehow I think that mkpasswd isn't intended to be run without arguments
>but the help information from --help indicates that all options are
>optional unless specified otherwise.

You're running gdb against a non-debug version of mkpasswd so the output
isn't really useful:

  This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
  (no debugging symbols found)

I'll see if I can figure out why this is segfaulting.  I can duplicate
this too.

cgf

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