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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 04:59:40 GMT
From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@try.idiom.com>
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Subject: vipw cna hang such that it can never succeed
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>Number:         65
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       certian password entry errors confuse vipw forever
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    core (FreeBSD core team)
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 18 05:10:00 1994
>Closed-Date:    Sat Mar 25 21:58:06 MET 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Idiom Consulting
>Environment:

>Description:

>How-To-Repeat:

	Start up vipw.

	Copy a login line from a sun, or make one without the
	mysterious (I'm ftping manual pages now and haven't see
	'em yet) extra "::0" in the entry.

	write & quit.  You'll get an error like:

		kernel: pid 288: pwd_mkdb: uid 0: exited on signal 11 

	On the console.  

	From this point on, you can't satisfy vipw.  

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 25 21:58:06 MET 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
This bug has obviously been fixed meanwhile: 
pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry 
pwd_mkdb: at line #30 
pwd_mkdb: /etc/pw.009349: Inappropriate file type or format 

...is what i get when attempting to enter  an illegal record. 
>Unformatted:



