Shadows 'groupmems' program segfaults

[Robert Connolly]

On Sunday October 12 2008 03:50:32 pm Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Robert Connolly wrote:
> > As root, I tried every 'groupmems' option, and they all work. I'm using
> > shadow-4.1.2.1, glibc-2.8-20080908, binutils-2.18.50.0.9, and
> > gcc-4.2.5-20080903.
>
> I cannot reproduce the segfault. Not sure why. Strange.
>
> One thing that needs to be reported upstream, however.
> The groupmems program only updates /etc/group and doesn't
> update /etc/gshadow. Seems the program should update both
> for consistency sake.
>
> --
> Randy

'groupmems' looks like an alternative to 'gpasswd', using filesystem 
permissions on /usr/sbin/groupmems instead of a password. You can ask 
upstream, but I don't think it supposed to modify /etc/gpasswd.

The suggested permissions of 2770 is messed up though, giving everyone in 
the "groups" group write permission to an suid.

robert
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