Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:44:51 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird bug in /etc/group -related library functions Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961212144449.00912810@dimaga.com>
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At 12:35 PM 12/12/96 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >Hi, > >yesterday we have experienced a weird bug related to an invalid >/etc/group. I'll submit a PR as soon as I have more detailed info, but >the thing was as follows: >1) by mistake an invalid line was inserted in /etc/group. But we > did not know... [description of extremely unstable system deleted] We had the same problem once - however, that wasn't with a garbage line, it was with a line containing user-id's not registered at that machine. (Both the group and the passwd file was copied from another server, and then a lot of accounts were deleted) I didn't report it back then, as the problem occurred in a snapshot, and the box was a bit unstable anyway (bad motherboard). But the problem was defineatly there. (This was a snapshot of current a while before 2.1.5 was released, for anybody wanting more specifics) -- Eivind Eklund gopher://nic.follonett.no:79/0eivind Work: eivind@dimaga.com http://www.dimaga.com/ Home: perhaps@yes.no http://maybes.yes.no/perhaps/ All of the above is a product of either your or my imagination, and not official.
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