Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 06:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/40343: getpwnam in perl 5.6.1 does not work with nis passwd files Message-ID: <200207081355.g68DtrkB055899@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 40343
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: getpwnam in perl 5.6.1 does not work with nis passwd files
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 08 07:00:04 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Russell Cattelan
>Release: 4.6
>Organization:
Digital Elves Inc
>Environment:
FreeBSD congo.borg.umn.edu 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Mon Jul 1 23:24:35 CDT 2002 root@congo.borg.umn.edu:/export/hose/cattelan/src4/sys/compile/CONGO i386
>Description:
The getpw* functions do not appear to work correctly when using the ports
version of perl (aka 5.6.1)
congo[8:52am]#/usr/bin/perl5 /tmp/a.pl
uuid 6969
congo[8:54am]#/usr/local/bin/perl5 /tmp/a.pl
uuid
>How-To-Repeat:
Run this script looking up a user from NIS
Note users in local passwd file work fine.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
my $uuid = getpwnam('cattelan');
print "uuid $uuid\n";
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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