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0010920Talermerchant backendpublic2026-02-04 19:00
ReporterFlorian Dold Assigned ToChristian Grothoff Resolution deadline
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PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
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Target Version1.4Fixed in Version1.4 
Summary0010920: taler-merchant-passwd reports weird error (index out of bounds?) when argument is missing
DescriptionIt doesn't make sense that the tool reports "Superfluous command-line option" when it's actually a missing option.

Furthermore the reported superfluous command line option is some random environment variable. Looks like an array index out of bounds issue.
Steps To Reproducefdold@salak ~/r/t/merchant (master)> taler-merchant-passwd --version
taler-merchant-passwd v1.3.0-git-e753bf25

fdold@salak ~/r/t/merchant (master)> taler-merchant-passwd -i admin
Superfluous command-line option `LANG=en_US.UTF-8' specified

fdold@salak ~/r/t/merchant (master) [255]> taler-merchant-passwd -i admin
Superfluous command-line option `MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/dbus-:1.2-org.gnome.Ptyxis@0.service/memory.pressure' specified
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Christian Grothoff

2026-01-28 07:51

manager   ~0027404

Fixed in e753bf25..813f441d

Issue History

Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2026-01-26 18:00Florian DoldNew Issue
2026-01-28 07:45Christian GrothoffAssigned To => Christian Grothoff
2026-01-28 07:45Christian GrothoffStatusnew => assigned
2026-01-28 07:51Christian GrothoffStatusassigned => informing
2026-01-28 07:51Christian GrothoffResolutionopen => fixed
2026-01-28 07:51Christian GrothoffFixed in Version => 1.4
2026-01-28 07:51Christian GrothoffNote Added: 0027404
2026-02-04 19:00Christian GrothoffStatusinforming => closed