On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:58:02PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:51:08PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote: > > > On the system I'm using that relies on PAM, my account doesn't have an > > > entry in the local /etc/passwd file. Disabling getpw and related bits > > > makes the patch work for me. > > > > I fixed the issue and moved the getpw code to an ifdef. > > I see you moved the HAVE_BSD_AUTH check, but I don't understand how this > is supposed to resolve the issue I had -- the machine I'm using is a > Linux machine. The getuid(3) and getpwuid(3) functions work fine because > they're implemented in glibc which supports NSS. The problem is the > "getpw" (which calls getspnam(3)) function which fails with "cannot > retrieve shadow entry."
I intend to modify your code so that it handles systems relying on NSS for authentication later today. Would you be willing to merge my changes into your patch? Eric
