bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP

[Dick Davies]

The following reply was made to PR bin/81555; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dick Davies <rasputnik at hellooperator.net>
To: Thomas Sandford <freebsduser at paradisegreen.co.uk>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dean at stack.nl, rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Subject: Re: bin/81555: Cron exits from SIGPIPE after crontab -e when using NSS-LDAP
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:24:35 +0100

 * Thomas Sandford <freebsduser at paradisegreen.co.uk> [0608 13:08]:
 > Are there other things that are going to be affected by this "login via SSH 
 > using an LDAP account" issue. I can't quite work out how this could affect 
 > a system daemon which should surely be running with terminal detached 
 > anyway (and certainly looks like it from a quick ps -auxww). [I haven't yet 
 > spent much time examining the source to see why this occurs].
 
 It's not just via ssh. *any* user on an nss-ldap box can crash crond by running
 crontab -e.
 
 I'm guessing cron looks up a uid in a non-nss aware way somehow and dies when it can't find
 them, but I don't really know enough of the system to explain further.
 
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