Re: ldappasswd core dumps w/UFC-Crypt on Slack7 (ITS#598)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Please provide a stack backtrace from the core dump.
	Kurt

At 06:14 AM 6/17/00 GMT, brad@mrunix.net wrote:
>Full_Name: Bradford L. Barrett
>Version: 1.2.11
>OS: Slackware 7 base/2.2.15 kernel
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (208.60.255.34)
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>ldappasswd does a core dump (segfault) when attempting to change a password
>using {CRYPT} on a Slackware 7 system w/UFC-Crypt (1.3) library installed.
>I had the same problem with imap-4.7c and wound up having to modify the code to
>check for a NULL return string before doing a strcpy in order to fix it..
>It appears that the UFC code has changed a bit and requires the salt to
>be in a unique format for it to work properly...  If it's not the right
>format, the crypt(3) call just returns a NULL so a strcpy or other pointer
>oriented operation segfaults hard :(  Other encryption methods work without
>a problem (I've verified MD5 works fine).  I'll run a trace on the code and
>see if I can pinpoint the exact location of the problem when I get a free
>moment or two.
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