Bug 116193

Summary:	enewuser does not handle $ROOT correctly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephen Dennis <sd>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephen Dennis 2005-12-20 11:03:50 UTC

When doing a $ROOT=/whatever emerge thing, if ebuild uses
enewuser, enewuser does useradd on /etc/passwd, not on
$ROOT/etc/passwd. 

Further problematic as enewuser uses getent in its logic
which is almost certainly wrong.

eclass file
/usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-20 11:08:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42320 ***