Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 01:09:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS strangeness Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906070104130.4296-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906062349490.4215-100000@jason.argos.org>
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> Basically, if "root" is who's calling getpwnam(), the NIS lookup fails. > If any other user calls getpwnam(), it works. Example: > Here's an interesting bit of information: Running tcpdump with the "-x" option and decoding the hex bytes off the network, the NIS server IS sending back the correct line from master.passwd.byname in the 4th packet in the transaction when root calls getpwnam(). For some reason, it never seems to get back to the user program that called it, though. Ho, hum..... Time to go digging through libc's source.... :) --Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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