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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 10:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>, <current@FreeBSD.org>, <trish@bsdunix.net>
Subject:   Re: passwd issue 
Message-ID:  <20020522104542.H444-100000@femme.listmistress.org>
In-Reply-To: <12978.1022078581@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200205221430.g4MEU8E16551@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>, mark tinguely wri
> tes:
> >on Tue May 21 13:07:13 2002, Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net> said:
> >
> >> femme:~$ passwd
> >> Changing local password for trish
> >> Old Password:
> >> passwd in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
> >> Abort trap
> >
> >does your log file have a swap space exceeded error? If so, restart
> >your inetd.
>
> That answer doesn't make sense...
>
> see malloc(3) for more info.
>

Yeah exactly, BTW, the patch for this issue is currently at
http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/pam_unix.c.patch

DES has been notified by juli.

It was the location of the free() that was an issue, it now works for me.

-Trish

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