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[Jennie R. McLaughlin]

I am running Red Hat Linux 6.0.  I installed pam_smb and smb
2.0.7.  Everything seems to be going well except on the pam_smb site there
says there us a bug when you telnet from a  host whose IP address is not
resolvable to a hostname.  It causes login to crash.  We are having this
problem exactly.

It suggested to download the SRPMS for util-linux-2.9.o-13, which I did.
Goes fine untill I run patch -p0<login.c.diff.  I get the following error:

[root at aurora login-utils]# patch -p0 < login.c.diff
patching file `login.c'
Hunk #1 FAILED at 354.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to login.c.rej
[root at aurora login-utils]#

Attached is a copy of the rejects.  Do you know why I am having this
problem, or could you point me in a direction to try to find a solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks!

Jennie

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Onondaga Community College
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Matthew Keller wrote:

> "Jennie R. McLaughlin" wrote:
> > 
> > My boss met you at STC and asked me to write you.
> 
> Jennie,
> 	Yes, Paul and I talked for quite a bit. Given your environment, I don't
> think you need any extra coding. 
> 
> 	If you don't have it already, I highly recommend the book "Using Samba"
> (published by O'Reilly's). I may make some page references to this book.
> Also, I highly recommend a tool called webmin (
> http://www.webmin.com/webmin ) for administering you Linux/UNIX box(es).
> It is free, and a godsend (you can also configure Samba with it. :)
> 
> 	I recommend (based on the environment/needs you outlined) using PAM
> (pluggable authentication modules). There are a couple good ones for NT
> authentication: (NOTE: You'll need to compile Samba with the --with-pam
> option to use PAM for Samba authentication (pages 36 and 179)
> 	PAM_NTDOM  http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/pam_ntdom/
> 	PAM_SMB    http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/pam_smb/
> PAM will allow you to have multiple services on the same host share the
> same authentication mechanism, eliminating the need for password
> synchronization, per se. The only caveat is that the account must exist
> in the /etc/passwd file - and the password disabled (a '*' in the
> password field). This will not be necessary in near-future versions of
> Samba and its sister PAM modules, but is for now.
> 	I also recommend staying "up" on the latest release of Samba (currently
> 2.0.7) ( http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-latest.tar.gz ) - Yes,
> Samba is still "under development", but it is very very usable, and
> quite usable in most all environments.
> 
> 	If you still feel you need code for your solution, let me know, and
> I'll send it on. I'll be up front that it is not commented, and quite
> obfuscated. The NT programming was all done in Visual BASIC/C++ and the
> UNIX-side is all in Perl.
> 	If you're still having problems, feel free to e-mail me- I'm more than
> happy to help- If push comes to shove, I can give you a few hours of my
> time on-site. 
> 
> 
> 	Enjoy!
> -- 
> 
>  Matthew Keller
>  Lead Programmer/Analyst
>  Distributed Computing/Telemedia
>  Information Services Division
>  State University of New York at Potsdam
>  
>  Website: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/
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> 
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*** 354,381 ****
  	    *p = 0;

  	  hostname = optarg;

  	  { 

- 	    struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(hostname);

- 	    if (he) {

- 	      if(he->h_addr_list) {

- 		

- 		int x=0,y=0;

- 		

- 		while(he->h_addr_list[x]!=NULL) x++;

- 		

- 		memcpy(&hostaddress, he, sizeof(hostaddress));

- 		

- 		hostaddress.h_addr_list = (char **) malloc (sizeof (char *) * x);

- 		

- 		while (y<x)

- 		  {

- 		    hostaddress.h_addr_list[y] = (char *) malloc (hostaddress.h_length);

- 		    memcpy(hostaddress.h_addr_list[y],he->h_addr_list[y], hostaddress.h_length);

- 		    y++;

- 		  }

  	      }

- 	    } else {

- 	      memset(&hostaddress, 0, sizeof(hostaddress));

- 	    }

  	  }

  	  break;

  	  

--- 354,365 ----
  	    *p = 0;

  	  hostname = optarg;

  	  { 

+ 	      struct hostent *he = gethostbyname(hostname);

+ 	      if (he) {

+ 		  memcpy(&hostaddress, he, sizeof(hostaddress));

+ 	      } else {

+ 		  memset(&hostaddress, 0, sizeof(hostaddress));

  	      }

  	  }

  	  break;