adduser(8) incomplete (with fix)

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Fri Feb 1 08:47:46 AEST 1985


Index:		man8/adduser.8 Fix

Description:
	The adduser(8) manual page fails to warn against establishing login
	names that appear in the "/usr/lib/aliases" file.

Repeat-By:
	Creating a user whose name appears in "/usr/lib/aliases" but not in
	"/etc/passwd" (for example, "mct" in 4.1bsd as distributed)
	and mailing something to the user.

Fix:
	ed adduser.8
	/etc/c
	.I /etc/passwd
	or
	.IR /usr/lib/aliases .
	.
	w
	q
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