Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:30:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Udo Erdelhoff <udo@iml.fhg.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/21074: chkgrp vs group(5) inconsistency Message-ID: <200009060730.e867U6734280@antivirus.iml.fhg.de>
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>Number: 21074
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: chkgrp vs group(5) inconsistency
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 06 00:40:03 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Udo Erdelhoff
>Release: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Fraunhofer IML, Dortmund
>Environment:
4.1-stable, last cvsup 05-SEP-2000
>Description:
group(5) contains the following information
``YP/NIS INTERACTION
The /etc/group file can be configured to enable the YP/NIS group
database. An entry whose name field consists of a plus sign (`+') fol-
lowed by a group name, will be replaced internally to the C library with
the YP/NIS group entry for the named group. An entry whose name field
consists of a single plus sign with no group name following, will be re-
placed with the entire YP/NIS ``group.byname'' map.''
My /etc/group contains an entry that consists of a single plus sign and
things work as expected (i.e. the whole YP/NIS map is imported). grpchk
doesn't like this entry at all:
chkgrp: /etc/group: line 23: missing field(s)
>How-To-Repeat:
Add a line with a single plus sign to the end of your /etc/groups file and
run chkgroup.
>Fix:
chkgrp should be changed to accept NIS entries. Until then, the problem
should be mentioned in chkgrp(8):
--- chkgrp.8.orig Wed Sep 6 09:21:22 2000
+++ chkgrp.8 Wed Sep 6 09:29:22 2000
@@ -82,3 +82,8 @@
.Sh BUGS
Should check fields more thoroughly for allowed/disallowed
characters, and the range of the group ID.
+The
+.Nm
+utility will report errors for valid NIS-related entries,
+especially lines containing a single plus character
+.Po import whole map Pc .
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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