Bug 178784

Summary: authconfig seg faults when krb5.conf is missing admin_server option
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: ritz <rkhadgar>
Component: authconfigAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: rkhadgar
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0226 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-03-29 20:48:14 UTC Type: ---
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Description ritz 2006-01-24 12:24:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
authconfig crahes on customer system. Problem was traced to bad configuration file.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
authconfig-4.3.7-3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
usr/sbin/authconfig --nostart --kickstart --enablenis --nisdomain ctc
--nisserver linux75,linux76,linux77 --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablekrb5
--krb5realm AD.CTCGSC.ORG --krb5kdc unix-ad.ctc.com:88

  
Actual results:
segmentation fault

Expected results:
graceful degradation

Additional info:
traced to missing "admin_server" in krb5.conf file
works fine without "--kickstart" option
Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2006-01-24 13:06:42 UTC 
*** Bug 178783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-29 20:48:14 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0226.html