Thanks, fixed in devel branch.
cb4f2998992d1d39fa4629c2187832249c0a5932

Jay


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Ken Milmore <ken.milm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another issue:  When building with --enable-nopam, a link-time error
> occurs because verify_user.c doesn't define auth_stop_session().
>
> -Ken.
>
>
> On 30/10/14 00:57, Jay Sorg wrote:
>> Hi Kev,
>>
>> Thanks, I added this to devel branch.
>>
>> The other issue with the threads should go away.  I'm planning to
>> remove the threads from sesman because it does a bunch for forking.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Ken Milmore <ken.milm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am using xrdp without PAM, and have been looking at the recently
>>> modified shadow authentication code in sesman/verify_user.c.
>>>
>>> I have noticed that sesman segfaults when attempting to authenticate a
>>> user account which has been locked by "passwd -l username".  In fact the
>>> segfault occurs whenever the contents of the shadow password field do
>>> not match any of the hash formats expected by GNU crypt().
>>>
>>> The problem lies in verify_user.c, function auth_user_pass().  The
>>> return value of crypt() will be NULL if the account happens to be locked
>>> or if the enctrypted password is in an unexpected format. So I would
>>> suggest that the code at the end of auth_user_pass() should go something
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>    epass = crypt(pass, encr);
>>>    if (epass == 0)
>>>    {
>>>      /* possibly a locked account */
>>>      return 0;
>>>    }
>>>    return (strcmp(encr, epass) == 0);
>>> }
>>>
>>> Another point: auth_user_pass() seems to get called from a thread spun
>>> off a listening socket, but calls getpwnam, getspnam and crypt which  re
>>> not re-entrant. Shoudln't there be a mutex or something similar
>>> protecting this whole function?  Apologies if I've missed some reason
>>> why it can't be re-entered.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Ken Milmore.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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