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Subject: Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)
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On Aug 18 08:19, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Should be fixed now as well.  Thanks for the report.
> 
> $ mkgroup -l -g Users
> Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
> 
> That works, but this is still confusing:
> 
> $ mkgroup -l -g nonexist
> mkgroup (391): [0] The operation completed successfully.
>  (nonexist)
> 
> whereas mkpasswd reports:
> 
> $ mkpasswd -l -u nonexist
> mkpasswd (444): [2221] The user name could not be found.
> 
> It may be that mkgroup needs some special handling for this particular case.

Definitely.  I look into it.


Corinna

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