[1635] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: bug in Kerberos 5 B5 kadmind5 on IRIX 5.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Sep 20 15:52:08 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:51:44 -0400
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: Chris Wilson <cwilson@CS.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1634] in Kerberos-V5-bugs"
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Wilson <cwilson@CS.Stanford.EDU> writes:
Chris> There appears to be a bug in the configuration file parsing
Chris> routines used by kadmind5 that is triggered by a rather
Chris> unusual fact about IRIX 5.3.
Chris> The problem is in src/kadmin/v5server/srv_acl.c, in the
Chris> acl_get_line() function. This function does not properly
Chris> handle the end-of-file because on IRIX ``char'' is
Chris> ``unsigned char''.
This bug, along with several other bugs dealing with AIX and
IRIX (which both assume unsigned characters) has been fixed. I don't
think I ever got kadmind5 completely working on the SGI, but it at
least gets far enough to have a more-interesting and difficult-to-find
bug. These problems should eventually be fixed after the current
round of kadmind changes settle down.
--Sam
