Bug 5420 – userdel crashes without a GID listing of the user in /etc/group

Bug 5420 - userdel crashes without a GID listing of the user in /etc/group

Summary:	userdel crashes without a GID listing of the user in /etc/group

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	shadow-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-09-28 15:23 EDT by dro
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-09-29 14:18:48 EDT
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Description dro 1999-09-28 15:23:14 EDT

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 14:18:59 EDT

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

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