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libnss-extrausers package

Not multiarchified; uses legacy lib32 path

Bug #1551321 reported by Loïc Minier
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libnss-extrausers (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Hi,

when using libnss-extrausers with 32-bits program doing getpwnam and such on a 64-bits system, libnss-extrausers is only available for the current architecture (64-bits) and this results in entries not being found from the extra users db.

The solution is to install both 32-bits (i386) and 64-bits (amd64) version of this library package whenever relying on it. However that's not possible with the current pathnames which arent multiarch friendly.

Cheers,
- Loïc

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in libnss-extrausers (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Actually the lib is biarch, so it ships a /lib32 variant and ought to work; not sure what's wrong here.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

The issue is that the lib uses the legacy usr/lib32 pathnames which only work with libc6-i386 installed. The lib would work by default if it was in the multiarch pathname.

summary: - Not multiarchified and no 32-bits version available on 64-bits
+ Not multiarchified; uses legacy lib32 path
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