Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist vipw only edits /etc/passwd /etc/shadow etc. However calling it vipw suggests it will act like a standard editor and take a path on the command line to edit. Instead it silently ignores a path you give it (for instance if you are editing the passwd file on a mounted volume) and edits the files in /etc on the system you are using.
This colud have some fairly disastrous consequences since its not always obvious which file you are editing. vipw (and vigr) should either refuse to take any input on the command line other that the correct options and exit or warn the user what it will actually do and then exit, or allow the user to do so. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries passwd recommends no packages. passwd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
