Bug#480896: nscd crashes with capital letters and ldap
Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5
we are using nscd and ldap authentication with libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap.
Ldap server is sun directory server.
All of our users have lowercase letters, when we try to getent or finger a
username with capital letters, nscd crashes after a while, when reloading that
user in the password cache.
It is a strange bug, I am not really sure if this is really a nscd bug or some
other part of the system, but we have consistently seen the same case in our
tests. And the crashing part is nscd.
During our tests we tried one uppercase letter in username, half of the name in
uppercase, all uppercase letters; they all crash while reloading in password cache.
A sample log can be found below.
26890: Reloading "5355" in password cache!
26890: Reloading "43466" in password cache!
26890: Reloading "101" in password cache!
26890: Reloading "6418" in password cache!
26890: remove GETPWBYUID entry "43466"
26890: remove GETPWBYUID entry "100"
26890: remove GETPWBYNAME entry "e1111111"
26890: remove GETPWBYNAME entry "sshd"
26890: Reloading "SELMA" in password cache!
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