300790 – sys-apps/shadow groupmod always fails with "Cannot determine your user name"

Bug 300790 - sys-apps/shadow groupmod always fails with "Cannot determine your user name"

Summary: sys-apps/shadow groupmod always fails with "Cannot determine your user name"

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2010-01-12 23:15 UTC by Esther Dalhuisen
Modified:	2010-01-15 02:58 UTC (History)
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Proposed patch for inclusion in the ebuild (shadow-4.1.4.2-groupmod-username.patch,373 bytes, patch) 2010-01-12 23:18 UTC, Esther Dalhuisen	Details \| Diff
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Description Esther Dalhuisen 2010-01-12 23:15:28 UTC

There is a bug in the source of shadow src/groupmod.c which renders it effectively useless when PAM is enabled where it performs a null-pointer check for the wrong variable. See the following mailinglist for more information:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/2009-November/007850.html

Affected version appears to be 4.1.4.2 only (so far?).

Comment 1 Esther Dalhuisen 2010-01-12 23:18:10 UTC

Created attachment 216305 [details, diff]
Proposed patch for inclusion in the ebuild

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-01-15 02:58:08 UTC

thanks, added the patch to 4.1.4.2-r2