From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 20:10:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42D61065672 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C6D8FC23 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1RKA428048536 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:04 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m1RKA4lO048535; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:04 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:04 GMT Message-Id: <200802272010.m1RKA4lO048535@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Denis Barov Cc: Subject: Re: kern/113398: [libc] initgroups fails rather than truncates if X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Denis Barov List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:10:05 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/113398; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Denis Barov To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, dean.povey@quest.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/113398: [libc] initgroups fails rather than truncates if Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:06:54 +0300 number of groups > NGROUPS_MAX meaning the user can no longer login Message-ID: <20080227170342.GE1139@sepulca.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD sepulca.yandex.ru 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Status: RO I'm sorry, previous patch just increases number of groups to 64, and this one fixes problem. -- Cheers Denis Barov diff -urN src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c.orig src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c --- src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c.orig 2003-11-19 18:51:26.000000000 +0300 +++ src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c 2008-02-27 22:59:13.000000000 +0300 @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ #include #include "namespace.h" #include +#include #include "un-namespace.h" #include @@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ gid_t agroup; { int ngroups; + int result; /* * Provide space for one group more than NGROUPS to allow * setgroups to fail and set errno. @@ -59,5 +61,10 @@ ngroups = NGROUPS + 1; getgrouplist(uname, agroup, groups, &ngroups); - return (setgroups(ngroups, groups)); + + do + result = setgroups (ngroups, groups); + while (result == -1 && errno == EINVAL && --ngroups > 0); + + return result; }