Date: 07 Jun 1999 17:14:45 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS strangeness Message-ID: <xzpvhd0kpp6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mike Nowlin's message of "Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:56:07 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906062349490.4215-100000@jason.argos.org>
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Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> writes: > [test program snipped] > If root runs this program, it SEGV's and blows up. But if anybody else > runs it, it comes back with The test program you posted doesn't do *any* error-checking... which means that if getpwnam() fails, your program will happily try to dereference a null pointer, hence the SIGSEGV. As to *why* getpwnam() fails, I have no clue. It works fine for me, both as a regular user and as root. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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