[tac_plus] parsingbug in tac-plus 4.0.4.19

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Tue Jun 14 17:20:07 UTC 2011


Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:01:12AM +0000, Christofer Algotsson:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to let you know Debian GNU/Linux uses : as delimiter in /etc/passwd for expiery records. Tac_plus needs to know this in order to validate the row and value correctly.
> 

I dont think this is correct.  Can you provide an example of the field value?
Your patch implies that a value that begins with a ':' is an empty or no
expiration indicator.  I think that a change must be made to the code below
this.

> Thanks
> Christofer Algotsson
> Malm? Stad, ITS
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