Bug 43907 – rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)

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Bug 43907 - rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)

Summary:	rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	openldap (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported:	2001-06-07 17:33 EDT by Alex Vorobiev
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-06-07 18:01:12 EDT
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Description Alex Vorobiev 2001-06-07 17:33:55 EDT

Description of problem:
rpm 4.0.2-8
glibc-2.2-12

/etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: ldap files
same for shadow and group

while installing apache 1.3.19-5, core dumps

from strace it looks like it chokes while parsing the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file

if order reversed (files ldap), the installation works fine

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. specify ldap files order in nsswitch.conf file as above
2. try to install apache
3.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-06-07 18:01:10 EDT

Rpm doesn't know ldap from padl, so this is a ldap problem, ...

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-07-03 16:28:11 EDT

This is a rare run-in with limitations on use of dynamically-loaded modules in
statically-linked binaries.  A workaround which gets around the problem by
shunting the queries to another process is to isntall and use nscd.  At some
point we'll have a better solution for this.

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