NIS cannot handle non-ascii characters in gecos field
Bug #162183 reported by
Morten Kjeldgaard
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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nis (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We are using NIS to serve the passwd file in a distributed computing environment. If a user's full name contains a non-ASCII character, for example is the name contains the acute accent, that entry is ignored by Ubuntu 7.10 machines and the user cannot login. When the full name of the user is edited to contain only ASCII characters, the login problem goes away.
We have the yp server running on a CentOS system, and do not have the same problem on CentOS clients.
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What does the relevant passwd entry look like in the output of ypcat passwd? Does the entry for the user look OK?