[637] in Athena Bugs
Bug in mkcred found...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Thu Aug 25 14:53:03 1988
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 88 14:52:08 EDT
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, nfs-hackers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The problem I was having was two-fold:
1) Priam was running an old mkcred that had a maximum of 16 groups
(this has been fixed)
2) More interestingly, mkcred imposes a linelength limit of 120
characters on lines read from /usr/etc/credentials. (120? Why 120?)
Anyway, any group numbers after character 120 are lost, and the last
group may be chopped off in the middle. e.g., I'm in group 5002, but
it got chopped in the middle, so I have access to group 50 (Yungie
Hahn's private group)...this is not good. A simple change to a
#define in mkcred.c will fix this.
Rob
