Samba Segfault on NT Login when /etc/group contains user not in
/etc/passwd or .../smbpasswd
Gerald Carter
cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Thu Nov 25 16:03:20 GMT 1999
Alex Satrapa wrote:
>
> It appears that smbd will segfault (why?) when a system user is present
> in a /etc/group group, but not in /etc/passwd. The same is not true for
> a non-system user. As a side effect of this bug, I've cleaned up our
> /etc/group file, so I guess I'm a little thankful.
Nice work. I remember this bug. Been there for a while. If I
remember correctly (now that you reminded me), the problem is because
of a NULL pointer returned when trying to setup group membership
and executing a getpwnam() call on members of group in /etc/qroup.
Therefore if you lookup a nonexistent account, we don;t check the
return value. My memory is fuzzy here, and to be honest, I'm not
sure I remember why I didn;t fix this when I found it. Maybe
because the group code was so complex in the 2.1 code.
I should go back and look at this again.
Nice work.
Cheers,
jerry
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Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter
Engineering Network Services Auburn University
jerry at eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
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