Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 02:14:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Mackler <mackler@barter.dewline.com> To: Floody <flood@evcom.net>, proftpd-l@evcom.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, btman@ugcs.caltech.edu Cc: mackler@barter.dewline.com Subject: Re: [proftpd-l] New ProFTPd user - Security, Incoming and pwd.db? Message-ID: <199808190614.CAA26143@barter.dewline.com>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:50:08 -0400
> From: Floody <flood@evcom.net>
> Reply-To: proftpd-l@evcom.net
> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
> Cc: proftpd-l@evcom.net
> Subject: Re: [proftpd-l] New ProFTPd user - Security, Incoming and pwd.db?
>
> Ok. I put up a test FreeBSD 2.2.7 system. There appears to be a libc
> problem with the setpassent() function, which doesn't work on FreeBSD as
> documented in the man pages (or on any other BSD). This is the heart of
> the problem. There is no workaround until libc is fixed.
Hi:
I think the following patch may fix the problem, but I'm afraid
I don't know how to rebuild my c library. If you find out if this
works can you let me know? Thanks.
*** getpwent.c Wed Aug 19 02:00:13 1998
--- getpwent.c.dist Wed Aug 19 01:58:33 1998
***************
*** 194,201 ****
if (rval && (_pw_passwd.pw_name[0] == '+'||
_pw_passwd.pw_name[0] == '-')) rval = 0;
! if (!_pw_stayopen)
! endpwent();
return(rval ? &_pw_passwd : (struct passwd *)NULL);
}
--- 194,200 ----
if (rval && (_pw_passwd.pw_name[0] == '+'||
_pw_passwd.pw_name[0] == '-')) rval = 0;
! endpwent();
return(rval ? &_pw_passwd : (struct passwd *)NULL);
}
--
Adam Mackler
Dewline Communications, LLC
212-505-9149
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