Bug 18516

Summary:	getpwuid(0) fails when root account is in NIS
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	graham <graham>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description graham 2000-05-12 18:50:00 UTC

When NIS is enabled and the root account is in NIS or any part of
it is in NIS, like +root whatever, calls to getpwuid(0) fail

Fix: 

unknown, workaround was to use another uid 0 account to access root
and leave a locked root account in the passwd files
How-To-Repeat: set up a machine as an NIS client
$ su -
# id
uid=0 gid=0(wheel)...
   +++ what happened to the username?
# su - someone
su: who are you?

Comment 1 graham 2000-05-12 21:28:06 UTC

Oops, should have poked around a bit more before subbmitting, looks like
the db->get library thing fails when the key is 0 and it doesn't exist in
the file, any other non existant uid seems ok.
-- 
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Graham Gillies  <bofh@telus.net>

Comment 2 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer

2001-07-22 03:16:10 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Originator figured out his own problem.