Subject: misc/435: pwd_mkdb manpage disagrees with itself and reality
To: None <gnats-admin>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/23/1994 15:50:06
>Number: 435
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: pwd_mkdb manpage disagrees with itself and reality
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: gnats-admin (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 23 15:50:05 1994
>Originator: der Mouse
>Organization:
(Why does the default for this field show up with the 0x80
bit set on each character? Weird. Must investigate someday.)
>Release: NetBSD 1.0_BETA
>Environment:
SPARC IPC, not that it really matters.
>Description:
pwd_mkdb(8) says, correctly, that it installs its databases
into /etc/spwd.db, /etc/pwd.db, and /etc/master.passwd, in the
first paragraph. But under FILES it names /var/db/pwd.db and
/var/db/spwd.db, which are much more sensible places but do not
match reality.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run "man pwd_mkdb" and compare the paths listed under FILES
with the first paragraph, and with reality (in the form of
_PATH_MP_DB and _PATH_SMP_DB in /usr/include/pwd.h or
/usr/src/include/pwd.h, or what gets modified by running
pwd_mkdb).
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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