Hi!
The following post was send to the shadow maintainer/and SuSE support last week. No response from SuSE yet - perhaps someone here is interested and may psuh things a little :-)
Bug was confirmed by maintainer and already made it into CVS version. (More: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/README)
Ciao, Marcel
It really depends on where you sent it. feedback@suse.de is being read, but shows a huge backlog sometimes. It's in the nature of feedback email addresses that they are overcrowded with email. There are specific aspects of bugs that require an extremely fast response. Security is one of them. Since this bug is not security-related, it does not belong to suse-security@suse.de (this list) or security@suse.de. We are looking into this now. It could very well happen that more than 4096 bytes in a grouo line entry is beyond the standard (for example, 1024 is the limit for NIS!). You'd have to think about something else in this case. In the case that this is a bug (!), it will be fixed in a future distribution, if time permits. Roman. -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht@suse.de> "Caution: Cape does not | SuSE GmbH - Security enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany (Batman Costume warning label) | - -