User Limitation

Nathaniel Brown

User Limitation

« on: July 24, 2003, 12:06:19 PM »

I'll be posting this to the development list as well.

There's a bug in all of the uesr tools:
*adduser
*usermod

It stuffs up the group file.

Here's the redhat bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60304

It wasn't fixed in 7.3 or 8.0 but was fixed in 9.0

The packages involved are shadow-utils (<= 8.0) and shadow (9.0)

It's a nasty bug to run into if you have users with long usernames.

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Cyrus Bharda

Re: User Limitation

« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2003, 02:15:52 AM »

Please report bugs to smebugs@mitel.com

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Charlie Brady

Re: User Limitation

« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2003, 05:59:13 AM »

Nathaniel Brown wrote:

> I'll be posting this to the development list as well.

As Cyrus has said, neither here nor there is the correct place to mention this.

> It wasn't fixed in 7.3 or 8.0 but was fixed in 9.0

But is fixed in SME 5.6, as you can see in the shadow-utils RPM changelog:

...
* Wed Sep 04 2002 Charlie Brady 20000902-7es1

- Fix problem with long lines in /etc/group. Patch recovered from PLD
shadow-4.0.0 RPM.
...

Charlie

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Nathaniel Brown

Re: User Limitation

« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2003, 06:23:52 AM »

I must have missed it.

We ended up writing a script that was called after the users were created to recreate the group file.

I had a look for a place to submit bugs before but I couldn't find it. I just had another look at the website and it was on the main page ... don't know how I missed it.

Anyway thanks for the help (Both of you).

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