[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#756630: Bug#756630: newusers fails adding multiple users

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can confirm this bug. Using a file with 5 new users I get the
> following error:
> 
> # newusers 5users.csv 
> *** Error in `newusers': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001ae2d10 ***
> Aborted

Could you run that in gdb and show the backtrace here?  It smells like
a bad realloc.

> A curious detail: if the first 4 users are already created and I run
> newusers, the 5th one is added without problems. If I have 6 users in
> the file and the first 5 users are already created the 6th one is added
> without problems. And so on.
> 
> $ dpkg -s passwd | grep 'Version'
> Version: 1:4.2-3.1
> 
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