Re: NIS+ groups, segfaults

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Wed, Feb 28, Dirk Wetter wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> below you find a mail posted in November 2000 to the NIS+
> Linux mailing list. Looks also for us like there's a
> problem, which hasn't been fixed. I know that we are
> using not the very recent libc, but I like to find out where
> the problem is anyhow.
> 
> We are using a plain SuSE 7.0 with a libc-2.1.3.
> We have 2 groups with more than 700 chars, as soon as
> we enable the compat or nisplus mode  in /etc/nsswitch.conf for
> groups we get segfaults while authenticating. also the strace
> output makes us assuming  that  there is a bug. No problem if
> we dump the NIS+ groups and append it to /etc/group.
> 
> So, how can we find the bug and to fix it in libc 2.1.3 ??

The last time I had access to a NIS+ server I couldn't reproduce
any problems with NIS+ groups. But it looks like there is one
problem with netgroups and static linking and one with the
initgroups function. Nobody was yet able to track them down.

  Thorsten

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