On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 09:04:48AM +0100, Holger Jakob wrote: > When I try to add a group to ALLOW_GROUPS in a snapper config file I get > a "invalid group" error. > > The issue was tracked down to getgrnam_r(). > > In snapper-0.3.3/snapper/AppUtil.cc get_group_gid() fails to find GID > when bufsize is too small. > > I have a lot of users in a group in /etc/group. > > getgrnam_r() fails to return with success. Increasing bufsize from 1024 > to 2000 worked. Removing some of the users from the group also helps. > > I recommend to do something like described in > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getgrnam.html
Hi Holger, thanks for the bug report, I have fixed the issue in https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/pull/288. ciao Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <[email protected]> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
