[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#569899: /usr/bin/newgrp: newgrp: Always fails with "Invalid password." after asking for one

[Michael Bunk]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/newgrp

If you try to switch to a password protected (with gpasswd) group you are no member of using "newgrp somegroup", even if you supply the right password, you get "Invalid password.".

The reason is the code for reading /etc/gshadow being broken.  Attached is a small fix against svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-shadow/upstream/trunk Revision 3094.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc6 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                1.1.0-4    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.1.0-4    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-1    Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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