Samba 2.1 pre-release okay - RedHat 5.2/glibc is my problem
Bill Nugent
whn at topelo.lopi.com
Tue Feb 2 03:42:59 GMT 1999
Howdy,
I reported earlier that I could not get smbpasswd to work properly -
"smbpasswd -m 'bonkers$'" is one example. I think I may have found a
problem - getpwnam() doesn't work when '$' is the last character of the
name. I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 with glibc-2.0.7-29 and my
/etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow) have an entry for bonkers$:
bonkers$:4999:5000:bonkers to use NT:/home/samba/Machines:/bin/false
My test program:
$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct passwd *p = getpwnam(argv[1]);
printf("%s = %x\n", argv[1], p);
}
And some results:
$ ./test joe # Dummy user joe - an entry is returned
joe = 400ae2d8
$ ./test 'bonkers$' # And this is broken
bonkers$ = 0
I tried escaping the dollar sign in case there was an RE involved...no
such luck.
I submitted a bug report to RedHat. I took a look at the glibc source
and it is appears to be non-trivial (multiple levels of macros) and I do
not have the cycles to spare looking into this problem as well...sigh.
Bill
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