Re: [Bug-sysutils] passwd-ng: Strange output from --help

[David Weinehall]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:30:07AM -0700, Barry deFreese wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am going to start changing passwd-ng utils from using getopts to 
> argp.  I was dumping --help from all of the programs last night and got 
> some strange output for lsuser and lsgroup.
> 
> ls{user | group} --help yields:
> 'access()' failed; No such file or directory. Aborting.
> 
> First question is:  --help shouldn't even attempt to execute any code 
> but just dump usage and options correct?

Correct.  But we need to know what help-text to show; normal users
cannot user all options if lsuser and lsgroup isn't installed suid/sgid.

> Aside from that I will try to look into what this error is.  This is on 
> a GNU/Hurd machine so maybe I need to try it on a GNU/Linux box.

The problem is that it cannot find /etc/shadow and/or /etc/gshadow.
These files are a requisite for things to work properly.


Regards: David
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