Re: Patch: netgrp can't handle splitted NIS groups

On Fri, Jul 08, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 08, Christian Mudra wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>today I found out, that newgrp doesn't handle splitted NIS groups 
> >>correctly.
> >>I've checked several implementations of newgrp (shadow, util-linux and
> >>opensolaris), but didn't have success finding a 'good' one. It's 
> >>interesting,
> >>that only the newgroup of AIX (I tested AIX-5.1) takes care of splitted 
> >>NIS
> >>groups and handles them correctly.
> >
> >This is not correct, there are other Implementations for Linux, which
> >also support this "hack" like pwdutils.
> 
> So conclution: "this patch is correct in sense NIS specyfication" is 
> correct ?

This is undefined behavior in "sene of NIS specification". But since
it is a usual workaround for this limitation (between, on pure Linux
networks this hack is not necessary), the patch is Ok. But it only
"fixes" one more app, not the generel problem that there is much more
software in the world which still will not work with this hack.

  Thorsten

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