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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:30:31 +0100
From:      Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass chpass.c
Message-ID:  <20021029143031.E5639@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021029155109.X85272-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>; from maxim@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:51:23PM %2B0300
References:  <200210291245.g9TCjXqO008646@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021029155109.X85272-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>

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As Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> >   Don't try to dereference a NULL pw pointer.  This would happen when
> >   attempting to use chpass -a.
> 
> bin/40471?

Only the easy part of it. ;-)  The NIS part still needs to be done
(if someone's really interested to get chpass -a run against a NIS
server).

Anyway, i thought fixing a potential segfault in a setuid root
program was worth the while...

But i'll write a followup, thanks.
-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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