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noob4lnx

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[SOLVED] Potential minor bug in /etc/login.defs

I noticed that when adding a # comment after "MAX_DAYS" or "MIN_DAYS" (example in box below) an error occurs at useradd.

MAX_DAYS=4  # this is the max blah blah

The useradd binary reads /etc/login.defs and can't handle comments after a value , it only filters comments at the beginning of the line.

Maybe a coder can pick up on this sometime in the future. My first little noob contribution to your great distro. I thought of feeding you back on here.

Last edited by noob4lnx (2022-09-23 22:29:20)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Potential minor bug in /etc/login.defs

Comments are introduced with a "#" pound sign and the pound sign must be the first non-white character of the line.

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noob4lnx

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Re: [SOLVED] Potential minor bug in /etc/login.defs

OK In this case I did not RTFM correctly or missed that section. Thank you for pointing this out. I will close this topic

Update: its now marked as solved.

Thanks again

Last edited by noob4lnx (2022-09-23 22:29:40)

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