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[Bug nis/962] traditional netgroup logins impossible
- From: "kukuk at suse dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 27 Jun 2005 14:43:20 -0000
- Subject: [Bug nis/962] traditional netgroup logins impossible
- References: <20050523094600.962.dvandeun@wilma.vub.ac.be>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com
------- Additional Comments From kukuk at suse dot de 2005-06-27 14:43 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Subject: Re: traditional netgroup logins impossible
>
> > > In the meantime, I found that running nscd seems to be a functional
> > > work-around. (Which also means that to test the problem, you
> > > should disable nscd.)
> >
> > Which sounds like the problem is your application calling the getpw*()
> > functions and not glibc.
>
> Then how do you explain that I could fix it by removing an assert from
> glibc ?
You don't fix it, you hide it. Removing the check only means, the program will
not fail at this place, not that the bug is fixed which makes this check fail.
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