Bug#983405: adduser: race conditions in adduser

2022-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 confirmed Control: severity -1 normal thanks On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:21:56PM -0500, Brent Baccala wrote: > Then I modified the custom service to protect the call to adduser with > a POSIX semaphore. Yes, adduser should lock itself against concurrent invocation. This is

Bug#983405: adduser: race conditions in adduser

2021-02-23 Thread Brent Baccala
Package: adduser Version: 3.116ubuntu1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? A custom designed system service attempted to add several users near- simultaneously. I got two users