[Bug 6728] adduser command

Fri Dec 20 19:45:38 UTC 2013

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6728

Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> 2013-12-20 19:45:37 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 5132 [details]
> executed command snapshot
> 
> busybox executes "addgroup" when "adduser" command is executed.
> This is with 1.21.1 version of busybox cross-compiled for ARM with
> arm-linux-gnueabi- toolchain.

The bug is that "adduser" with no params should error out, but there is no
check for that. So it trues to create NULL user.

For that, it runs "addgroup -- <NULL> users" which isn't going to work - it
prints help instead.

Fixed in git.

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