Comment 11 for bug 23077

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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:38:47 -0400
From: Jon Akers <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: libc6/NIS broken with bash/ksh/tcsh/sash

I have been following this somewhat closely as it is affecting me as
well. One thing I have tried is logging in as a user, unlike Alexander.
I get the same error as he is getting:

User jka is a member of the netgroup leonard, which has an entry
in /etc/passwd.

Via su:

teuber:~# su - jka
-su: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion
`malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed.
teuber:~#

Via ssh:

teuber:~# ssh jka@localhost
Password:
Linux teuber 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Thu May 19 17:27:55 JST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
Last login: Thu Oct 6 16:08:40 2005 from localhost
-bash: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion
`malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed.
Connection to localhost closed.
teuber:~#

In both cases, the shell for user jka is /bin/bash.

Debian package versions follow:

libc6 2.3.5-6
nis 3.14-2
bash 3.0-15