[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#461670: Bug#461670: Bug#461670: newgrp segfaults

[Nicolas François]

# I could reproduce it and it is not specific to Debian.
tags 461670 confirmed upstream
# severity lowered from important to normal:
# This is not frequent (misconfiguration), and has no impact (see below).
severity 461670 normal
thanks

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:58:40PM +0100, debdev at tonelli.sns.it wrote:
> it happens when you have an user whose primary group is not listed in
>  /etc/groups ,and this user switches to a secondary goup, and back
> 
> (this was due to me installing sid and etch and then jumping back and forth between the two - the /etc/group files became desynched)

Thanks for the additional information.

I could reproduce it and will fix it in the next upstream release.
I don't think it deserve an intermediate Debian release.


It happens while reporting to syslog that the user returned to its
original group.
Except for the missing syslog entry, it should be harmless.

You can get rid of the segfault warning by disabling SYSLOG_SG_ENAB in
/etc/login.defs (but you will have no report to syslog anyway).

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral