Re: [suse-security] Limits in /etc/group and useradd infinity loop
Maxim Cherniavsky wrote:
I've found strange problems with useradd program. Suddenly useradd stops to work and begins to eat memory till system crash.
Sad but true that there's absolutely no response from SuSE. :-( Sorry for the delay, as you have probably seen, there have been a lot of updates yesterday; and especially kernel updates require two eyes
Hi, per involved persons on it :-) We are investigating the useradd issue already. thanks a lot for the report, Sebastian -- ~ ~ perl self.pl ~ $_='print"\$_=\47$_\47;eval"';eval ~ krahmer@suse.de - SuSE Security Team ~
Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
Hi,
Maxim Cherniavsky wrote:
I've found strange problems with useradd program. Suddenly useradd stops to work and begins to eat memory till system crash.
Sad but true that there's absolutely no response from SuSE. :-(
Sorry for the delay, as you have probably seen, there have been a lot of updates yesterday; and especially kernel updates require two eyes per involved persons on it :-) We are investigating the useradd issue already.
thanks a lot for the report, Sebastian
Hi My workaround for this problem is to creating N-groups with the same GID logreader:x:1003: logreader1:x:1003: ...... and so on And limiting (by script) number of users in this groups to 80 :) -- Best regards, Maxim Cherniavsky MTU-Intel, Internet Department mailto:maxim@mtu.ru
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