Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:49:23 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, rafan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.yppasswdd fails in 7.2? Message-ID: <20090629094923.GU2884@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906261648070.95627@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906261648070.95627@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:59:29PM -0600, Barkley Vowk wrote: > I've got a 7.2 box acting as NIS master, running rpc.yppasswdd. When > remote users try to change their passwords they see: > > testing1# passwd mytest > Changing NIS password for mytest > Old Password: > New Password: > Retype New Password: > passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module > > On the server I get this in the logs: > rpc.yppasswdd[36858]: pw_mkdb() failed > > I tracked the error message down to line 620 of yppasswdd_server.c, which > lead me to libutil/pw_util.c. > > It looks like waitpid in mk_pwdb is returning the error "No child > processes", which then makes mk_pwdb return an error. But the child does > run and do it's job as expected. If you edit yppasswdd_server.c to ignore > the return value of mk_pwdb, passwords are changed as expected. I think this is a side-effect of r184459/r186756, that made rpc.yppasswdd to ignore SIGCHLD. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpIjiIACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hkDwCfbwZN8ules/o3b8fv7V28bHf0 pUUAn2Rwuf0WogYhBDeij1Axm6KH8hc+ =W9lh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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