From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 12 05:46:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA12740 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA12735 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.3/8.8.3) with UUCP id OAA20938; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:44:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id OAA03415; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:44:52 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961212144449.00912810@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:44:51 +0100 To: Luigi Rizzo From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Weird bug in /etc/group -related library functions Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.