On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:08:08AM -0500, root wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.7-18 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > > I'm running Debian Lenny with a stock 2.6.26-2 AMD64 kernel, and after > upgrading any of my systems to use the latest libc6 package from > debian-security (2.7-18lenny2), all of my systems that use NIS can no longer > authenticate. All I get is "Authentication service cannot retrieve > authentication info". If I upgrade a system to 2.7-18lenny2, I immediately > start having problems, and as soon as I revert back to 2.7-18, everything > works perfectly. I've been using the same NIS setup for close to 5 years > now, and have been moving it along from Sarge, to Etch, to Lenny without any > problems...until now.
I am sorry about that. This security update was there to prevent leaking adjunct passwords to normal users. > My /etc/nsswitch.conf: > passwd: compat > group: compat > shadow: compat > > Like I said, I am using NIS, however both the NIS master server and the NIS > clients both break when I upgrade libc6 to 2.7-18lenny2. The NIS server is > again, a stock Debian Lenny server. With the NIS server, I am combining the > passwd/shadow files on the NIS server into just the passwd map (using the > MERGE_PASSWD option). So the NIS clients don't actually see any shadow file > entries for any of the NIS accounts. Ok, so users were able to login even if there was no shadow entry. > I've also tried changing the nsswitch.conf file to: > passwd: nis files > group: nis files > shadow: files > > You'll notice I left the "nis" option off of the shadow entry, since there's > no need for it, since there's no "shadow" map. My guess is that, this is the > cause of the problem...In other words, because the system isn't seeing shadow > entries, it's bailing out. But why all of a sudden did this break in the > latest libc6? And is there a way to get the old functionality back? What the changes did is to stop merging adjunct passwords to the passwd database, and merge them in the shadow database instead. There is no new requirement for shadow entries. If you are not using adjunct password, no changes should have happened for you. As it doesn't work, it seems something has broken, we have to understand why. FYI, I have just done a NIS setup using the MERGE_PASSWD option, and only compat entries into /etc/nsswitch.conf, and I don't see this problem. I will need more informations to debug this: - Are you using adjunct passwords in addition to merged passwords? - As I understand, you have upgraded libc6 on both the NIS server and the clients. Can you please try to see if it also breaks if you upgrade only the clients? - Are you using nscd on the clients? - What the result of "getent passwd a_nis_user" on a client when running as a standard (local) user, a root user, for both - Do you have more info the client system logs? -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
