Error on user (re)creation from User Manager

[marcogi]

Hello all,
during a test session of pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE I got an error after a user create-modify-delete-recreate cycle.

Here are the steps I did to get the error.

• System -> User Manager -> Users menu

• Click on '+' icon to add a new user

• Entry mask filled as follow
  Username: myuser
  Password: mypwd
  (confirmation): mypwd

• Click on 'Save' button
  User created correctly as expected

• Click on 'e' button associated to newly created user in order to modify it

• Modify the 'Username' field: myuser -> myuser1

• Click on 'Save' button
  Username modified to 'myuser1' as expected

• Click on 'x' icon to delete 'myuser1' user

• Confirm deletion by clicking on 'OK' button

• User gets removed as expected

• Click on '+' icon to add a new user

• Entry mask filled as follow (the same username as first added username)
  Username: myuser
  Password: mypwd
  (confirmation): mypwd

• Click on 'Save' button

The following error appears:

The following input errors were detected:

That username is reserved by the system.

Is this the expected correct behavior?

Thanks,
Marco

[jimp]

Check /etc/passwd at each step, see if the original user was ever removed from there.

That error is probably coming from the old user still existing in /etc/passwd.

That may have been fixed after 2.0.1

[marcogi]

@jimp:

Check /etc/passwd at each step, see if the original user was ever removed from there.

That error is probably coming from the old user still existing in /etc/passwd.

Yes, the old user was still present in /etc/passwd.
Manually removing it solves the problem.

That may have been fixed after 2.0.1

Is there any issue tracking that fix on redmine?
I find this which could be related but not 100% sure: http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2066

Thanks for the help.
Marco

[jimp]

I'm not sure if that ticket was related, but the fix for that could have fixed this as well.

[jimp]

Just checked and the deletion case was ok but not rename.

https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/bb83746870f64525e477e1ddd14adc56b894b758

Easy fix.

Would also fix itself on reboot when the users are cleaned up and resynced. For a quicker fix that doesn't require editing and files, go to Diagnostics > Command and run this in the PHP exec box:

require_once("auth.inc");
local_sync_accounts();