Re: vipw -s (shadow)

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

David Wright <D.Wright@open.ac.uk> writes:

[snip]

> # vipw -s
> vipw: /bin/ae: Bad address
> vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged
> vipw: /bin/ae: No such file or directory
> vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged

[snip]

> I track stable, and ae is in /bin.
> Oh well, no one's logged in.

I don't quite track stable (BTW, the upgrade from 1.2 + some hamm to
1.3 + some hamm went remarkably well), but:

# strace -o trace -f vipw -s

produces some of the following in `trace':

2196  execve("/sbin/vi", ["vi", "/etc/shadow.edit", 0x1, "w", "r"], [/* 42 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
2196  execve("/bin/vi", ["vi", "/etc/shadow.edit", 0x1, "w", "r"], [/* 42 vars */]) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
                                                   ^^^
I'd say this is a bug.  You should report it to the bug-tracking
system (if it's not already there).

-- 
		Carey Evans  <*>  c.evans@clear.net.nz

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