Bug 582553
| Summary: | Maximum group name length is wrong, and changed mid-release | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mitchell Berger <mitchb> | ||||
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | mvadkert, ondrejj, pvrabec, tmraz | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-12-03 15:52:58 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This also appears in fedora 12 and should be fixed in upcoming F13. Please backport. I have same problems. Please make an update or at least tell me, that you have no time and need help. shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 Hi Peter - I see that you've applied the patch and built updates including it for F12, F13, and Rawhide - thanks! I'd appreciate if you could apply the patch and build for F11 as well, since that's where I ran into the problem, where I tested the patch, and since it would be very unfortunate to leave some packages broken mid-release as F11 is nearing the end of its life. shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update shadow-utils'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Peter, you have still not applied this fix to F11. I've reopened the bug. I've asked nicely. I've provided a patch. I'm really not sure what else I can do. Please fix this. This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 12. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '12'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 12's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 12 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 406728 [details] Build with a maximum group name length of 32, as documented Description of problem: The maximum permissible length of a group name was 32 characters when Fedora 11 shipped. It is still documented as such in groupadd(8)'s man page. However, the behavior of groupadd has changed such that the maximum length is now 16 characters. Aside from not matching documented behavior, this means that any package which creates a group whose name is between 16 and 32 characters used to work fine on F11, but is no longer able to install correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.4.1-5.fc11.x86_64 4.1.4.2-2.fc12.x86_64 (probably future versions as well) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to add a group with a name longer than 16, but shorter than 32 characters, for example: [root@zamboni mitchb]# groupadd -r nss-nonlocal-users Actual results: The following error is displayed and the group is not created: groupadd: 'nss-nonlocal-users' is not a valid group name Expected results: Successful group creation. Additional info: The Fedora package used to include a patch (the "goodname" patch) which slightly changes the rules for what constitutes a legal group name (for example, allowing a '$' at the end) and also changed the hardcoded 16-character limit from the upstream software to length(utmpx.ut_user). That length is __UT_NAMESIZE (defined to be 32 in bits/utmpx.h). The upstream version of shadow-utils that Fedora updated to made a change such that the max name length defaults to 16, but is adjustable at configure-time via a --with flag. As a result, the hunk of the "goodname" patch described above no longer applied and was dropped from Fedora's patch. However, the configure flag --with-group-name-max-length=32 was not added to the spec file, and as a result, when the new package was built, the max name length reverted to the default of 16. The attached patch to the spec file will return the limit to 32 characters. I've been running a shadow-utils patched with this small fix on several servers for some time now, and it appears to work properly. It would be great if this update could be applied soon so that other packages which make use of longer group names are once again able to be properly installed.