adduser failed with unknow uid=0

[he-guo at mediaring.com]

Hi Denis,

you are right. but I can not figure out why like that.
all user account related commands get problem with 1.30 version.

Thanks a lot for your help


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Vlasenko" <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
To: <busybox at busybox.net>
Cc: <he-guo at mediaring.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: adduser failed with unknow uid=0


> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 04:25, he-guo at mediaring.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I tested busybox-1.30, i found adduser failed with unknown uid=0.
> > 
> > adduser test
> > passwd: unknown uid 0
> > 
> > i tested it using busybox internal function and glibc function, 
> > all failed with the same reason .
> 
> Well, the only place where I see "unknown uid" string is here:
> 
> int vlock_main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>         sigset_t sig;
>         struct sigaction sa;
>         struct vt_mode vtm;
>         struct termios term;
>         uid_t uid = getuid();
> 
>         pw = getpwuid(uid);
>         if (pw == NULL)
>                 bb_error_msg_and_die("unknown uid %d", uid);
> 
> But adduser surely doesn't call vlock!
> It calls passwd. Maybe it is printed here?
> 
> int passwd_main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> ...
>         pw = getpwnam(name);
>         if (!pw) bb_error_msg_and_die("unknown user %s", name);
> 
> Can you check whaich of these messages is printed?
> --
> vda