Bug 5420

Summary:	userdel crashes without a GID listing of the user in /etc/group
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dro
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description dro 1999-09-28 19:23:14 UTC

Im guessing this is under shadow-utils, but who reall knows
:)

The problem is this:

userdel will segfault and dump core if you try to remove a
user that doesn't have a GID listing in /etc/group. I have
only experienced this problem on RH 6 systems, but I also
don't have access to previous releases.

I was able to test this on an old slackware machine, and it
was unaffected

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-09-29 18:18:59 UTC

This seems to be working in the lastest release of shadow-utils that
is available from our ftp site.

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-2.i386.rpm