Re: (ITS#6366) application GUI crashes when openning file by a user created by LDAP

[michael@stroeder.com]

fuzq@anl.gov wrote:
> Full_Name: Albert Fu
> Version: 2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.i386
> OS: Scientific Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (164.54.208.62)
> 
> 
> I have a Linux application software with a text editor developed with QT 
> and C++.  Every time when openning a file by a user created by LDAP, the 
> software crashes with "floating point exception".  However, this doesn't 
> happen to users added to the system by command 'useradd' or 'Users and 
> Groups' tool of the system.

I really doubt that this has something to do with OpenLDAP itself. Regarding
the LDAP side you should try to track down whether the user data returned via
nss_ldap or similar is complete and correct. Anyway the software should not
crash if the user name for a numeric user id cannot be found.

Ciao, Michael.