Latest world NIS woes

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 11:51:24AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> Huh, probably one of the struct passwd fields is returned set to NULL,
> most likely pw_class (which shouldn't be filled-in if you are not
> root).

Oh, yeah, we had this same problem when I first brought in nsswitch
from NetBSD over 2 years ago.

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c
  Revision 1.56 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Fri Oct 27 18:27:07 2000 UTC (2 years, 5 months ago) by nectar
  Branch: MAIN
  Changes since 1.55: +2 -2 lines
  Diff to previous 1.55 (colored)

  Explicitly initialize _pw_passwd.

If I recall correctly, someone noticed this due to OpenSSH then, also.
:-)
I'll commit a fix shortly.  I first have to decide where to do the
initialization.

Cheers,
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