Bug#737079: nscd crashes on netgroup lookups
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Arthur de Jong <adejong@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 07:56 +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> The Debian Edu team heavily relies on NIS netgroups coming from
>> LDAP. So any help with this in Debian jessie is highly appreciated!!!
>
> The last time I looked at nscd code I was not very happy ;) Also, nscd
> has a long history of instability and returning incorrect results.
The upstream glibc community has been working hard to rectify these
issues, and Red Hat in particular spent a lot of time making the
netgroup caching as bullet-proof as possible. If you have real bugs,
please file them upstream and come talk to the community.
> Btw, if anyone thinks this is something that libnss-ldapd does wrong,
> please let me know. Not all NSS interfaces are consistent in terms of
> memory management, return codes, etc. so there could be something
> wrong.
They should be consistent. Again, if you find something wrong, please
file a bug. The upstream glibc community is radically different now
and certainly more accepting of discussions on these issues.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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