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New: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page

Bug 53671 New bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 2 messages Feb 11, 2013 – Feb 12, 2013 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Summary: [PATCH] Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5)
man page
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Regression: No

Created an attachment (id=93141)
--> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=93141)
man-pages-nsswitch-conf.patch

Attached patch mentions initgroups db, which was added to the glibc in commit
[1] and describes unexpected behaviour for group database with notfound status and return action, based on comment on line 135 in initgroups.c file [2]. More detailed explanation of this behaviour can be found in email [4] of email thread [3].

[1]
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=9f2da732e7b03825027462dd1c46f8b4d18fc1f5
[2]
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=grp/initgroups.c;h=62fd1fc6de5f9ea08f31134c5ab9a36ae2d5af9e;hb=HEAD
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2609
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2620

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PATCH 1/1 Mention initgroups db in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53671

Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|                            |CODE_FIX

--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2013-02-12 03:31:56 --- Thanks. Applied.

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