Your message dated Sun, 4 Feb 2018 15:50:56 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: #769743: fixed in stable has caused the Debian Bug report #769743, regarding sulogin: crashes when /etc/passwd is missing to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.88dsf-57 Severity: important sulogin crashes when /etc/passwd is unavailable. See the following code from sulogin.c: if ((pwd = getrootpwent(opt_e)) == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "sulogin: cannot open password database!\n"); sleep(2); } ... if ((strcmp(pwd->pw_passwd, "*") == 0) || (strcmp(pwd->pw_passwd, "!") == 0)) { ... When the fprintf in the first if() case happens, pwd is NULL, and de-referencing that crashes in the second if. This affects users where initramfs-tools cannot succesfully mount /, leaving them with a more than necessary broken system. Thanks, Christian
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--- Begin Message ---Already fixed in stable, closing.
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