Bug#369536: netgroup: nis in nsswitch.conf causes libc6 to fail and programs like sudo or rpc.mountd to crash

[Volker Sauer <vsauer@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6-9
Severity: important


if in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

netgroup:       nis


then e.g. sudo fails:

vsauer@gelnhausen: ~ > sudo bash
sudo: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:78: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed

and rpc.mountd fails with the same error.

If I set

netgroup: files

everything runs okay.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.9-686-dvs1-1
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                        2006c-2    Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

libc6 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information