[Adduser-devel] Bug#363182: Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.

Ted Percival ted.percival at quest.com
Tue Apr 18 00:12:23 UTC 2006


Package: adduser
Version: 3.86
Severity: minor

adduser reports:
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.
whenever the cleanup function is called.

This is because of a misplaced close bracket.

A patch to fix this problem is attached.

Example run:
# adduser --system --debug test123
Selecting uid from range 100 to 999.
Adding system user `test123' with uid 108...
Adding new user `test123' (108) with group `nogroup'.
/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/test123 -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 108
test123
/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 test123
Creating home directory `/home/test123'.
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 846.
Stopped:
Removing directory `/home/test123'
rm -rf /home/test123
Removing user `test123'.
userdel test123

-Ted

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.15-5 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-4    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true
-------------- next part --------------
--- /tmp/adduser	2006-04-18 10:03:50.000000000 +1000
+++ /usr/sbin/adduser	2006-04-18 10:04:09.000000000 +1000
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
 
 sub cleanup {
     my ($msg) = @_;
-    printf (gtx("Stopped: %s\n",$msg));
+    printf (gtx("Stopped: %s\n"),$msg);
     if ($undohome) {
 	printf (gtx("Removing directory `%s'\n"),$undohome);
 	&systemcall('rm', '-rf', $undohome);


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