gethostname()'s old and new signatures without requiring a library
bump. Note that programs which called gethostname() with a negative
argument were already broken, since the same type conversion was done
by the old implementation. Add a note in the Makefile so that whoever
next bumps the libc revision will delete the kluge at the same time
(as it will no longer be necessary). This is only operative on 64-bit
platforms.
Submitted by: marcel
when the buffer is not long enough to hold the current host name.
POSIX does not standardize error returns for gethostname(), so it
doesn't matter which one we use, but ENAMETOOLONG is at least a little
more intuitive, and mi suggests the existence of prior art. I've been
running with this change for a while on my home machine with no
effect. At the same time, I've updated the prototype for
gethostname() to use the correct standard type (size_t) for the
namelen argument.
All of the in-tree callers fall into one of the following categories:
1) Call perror() or equivalent when gethostname() fails.
2) Ignore gethostname()'s return value entirely, potentially resulting
in data corruption if the buffer is too small.
3) Fall back to a (possibly sensible) default value if gethostname()
fails.
Many of the callers I examined shows signs of confusion about the
correct sizing of the host name buffer. gethostname(3) now has more
information about this, as well as updated standards information.
PR: 48114
Submitted by: mi (in part)
don't probe the server at all for passwd.by* maps. This fixes
interoperability with the Services For UNIX NIS server (which is
really a front end to Captive^WActiveDirectory). This server
incorrectly returns success for all YPPROC_MASTER requests,
even for maps that don't exist, which makes it impossible to
(ab)use it to probe for the existence of the master.passwd.by*
maps.
This is a little kludgey, but basically restores the original
behavior of getpwent.c as it is in -stable, and works around both
the lack of YPPROC_ORDER on NIS+ servers as well as the broken
YPPROC_MASTER on Services For UNIX servers.
The old buffer was not being initialized and a later str*() op on
it would cause a crash if it wasn't initialized by a previous
call to setproctitle(3) with an actual string.
Noticed by: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org>
Change execvp to be a wrapper around execvP. This is necessary for some
of the /rescue pieces. It may also be more generally applicable as well.
Submitted by: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Approved by: Silence on arch@
Also fixed the rest of ell (list) functions prototypes to include
a (commented out) terminating null pointer.
Pointed out by: bde
Obtained from: POSIX.1-2001
Glanced at by: imp
Fixes a problem where directory entries could show up twice: once
on the top layer of the union stack, and once on the bottom layer.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
technique) so that we don't wind up calling into an application's
version if the application defines them.
Inspired by: qpopper's interfering and buggy version of strlcpy
setgrent, and endgrent also. (The previous NSS implementation used to
simply twiddle the internal data of the various modules directly.)
A symptom (group list set incorrectly in sshd) was
Reported by: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
idea to re-initialize `struct passwd', because e.g. pw_class might
get set by one module, but not by another. Add another call to the
internal pwd_init function to accomplish this.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Correct a bug that should have wreaked havoc everywhere, but for
some reason only bit unlucky people who use `-march' optimizations.
The compiler cannot assist one in distinguishing between the two
function calls below.
int nsdispatch(void *, ...);
void *discard;
nsdispatch(&discard, ...); /* correct .. no, really! */
nsdispatch(discard, ...); /* Boom */
Robin provided me with a debugging environment in which I could see
what was going on.
Badness when using CPUTYPE was
Reported by: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin.Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
Reported by: nork
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
privileges. To do so may cause the NIS server to log spurious and
annoying `access denied' messages.
Reported by: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
would result in an incorrectly terminated grouplist.
login(1) crashes
Reported by: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no>,
Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>
string was an incredibly dumb idea (of course it will be changed by an
NSS module on success!). Use a static empty string instead.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
may not fill in all fields, and in the case of string fields, this could
cause trouble for applications. (The only likely example is `pw_class',
because this field is not used by all modules in all cases.)
Move initialization of struct passwd from module-specific code to the
dispatch code.
The problem of a NULL pw_class was
Noticed by: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
and the c^Htrusty ssh(1) command.
Déjà vu by: getpwent.c revision 1.56
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
