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List:       freebsd-bugs
Subject:    misc/156092: pw user flag -m does not respect custom home directory
From:       Lance Leger <laleger () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-03-31 14:38:12
Message-ID: 201103311438.p2VEcC1j050385 () red ! freebsd ! org
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> Number:         156092
> Category:       misc
> Synopsis:       pw user flag -m does not respect custom home directory locations
> Confidential:   no
> Severity:       non-critical
> Priority:       low
> Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> State:          open
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> Class:          sw-bug
> Submitter-Id:   current-users
> Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 31 14:40:09 UTC 2011
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> Originator:     Lance Leger
> Release:        8.1-RELEASE-p2
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> Description:
I've got an installation running from mfsroot with custom home directory locations on \
a seperate ufs filesystem and when I attempt to issue a "pw user mod <username> -m" \
command, pw gives me the following error:

pw: mkdir '/home': Read-only file system

Two issues here:

1) /home does not even exist on my system
2) the users custom home directory location is clearly defined in /etc/passwd

Now if I re-mount my mfsroot filesystem read-write, issue mkdir /home, then attempt \
to issue same command again it creates my users custom home directory (i.e. \
/d/home/user)

Another observation. If I leave the /home directory in place, re-mount my mfsroot \
filesystem read-only again, then attempt to issue the same command again it works \
(even though it has a reason now to complain that /home is read-only)
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> Fix:


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