Re: BUG: nessus-rmuser behaves badly...

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Jones, David H
wrote:

> In an attempt to get a user list, I tried some various
> command line variables, as well as just entering
> "nessus-rmuser" on its own hoping to get help.
>
> At the "Login to remove :" prompt, if you just hit enter,
> very bad bad things happen.  If you are in the /users
> directory, *all* users are deleted

Ouch! Do you mind filing a bug report at
<http://bugs.nessus.org/>?

In the meantime, if you want a quick & dirty fix, use this
(works against 2.3.0 and probably earlier versions):

                             ---- snip, snip, snip ----
--- nessus-rmuser.orig  2005-02-04 16:22:00.000000000 -0500
+++ nessus-rmuser       2005-02-25 20:05:26.388274176 -0500
@@ -76,10 +76,15 @@
 read login
 }

+test -z "$1" && {
+  echo "`gettext "no input... quitting"`"
+  exit 1
+}
+
 test -d "$localstatedir/nessus/users/$login" &&
 {
  rm -rf "$localstatedir/nessus/users/$login"
+ gettext "user removed."; echo
 }

-gettext "user removed."; echo
                             ---- snip, snip, snip ----

George
--
theall@tenablesecurity.com
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