Subject: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish
Package: nis
Version: 3.17-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Solaris 10 and Debian nis package 3.13-2 both accept non-ascii
characters in maps:
sol-10$ ypcat passwd|grep Mark|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c
0000000 K . M a r k s t r 367 m \n
0000015
nis_3.13-2$ ypcat passwd|grep Mark|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c
0000000 K . M a r k s t r 367 m \n
0000015
However, 3.17-6 does not:
nis_3.17-6$ ypcat passwd|grep Mark|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c
0000000
This breaks login access to the system.
Custom maps may also not behave as expected, which leads to
silent corruption of other data on the system. For example,
I build my apache htpasswd files using NIS password data and
users with non-ascii in their gecos are silently excluded.
-- Package-specific info:
nm-tool is not installed
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages nis depends on:
hi debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
hi libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
hi libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
hi lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
hi make 3.81-2 The GNU version of the "make" util
hi netbase 4.29 Basic TCP/IP networking system
hi portmap 5-26 The RPC portmapper
nis recommends no packages.
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