Re: [NFS] rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-08-03 Thread Stefan Walter
Neil Brown wrote: > I'm having troubling visualising the problematic setup. Is it > possible to get a copy of the /etc/exports file, and some idea of what > hosts are in which netgroups? Knowing that would help assess the > appropriateness of various solutions. > The attached file contains a s

Re: rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Walter
Steve Dickson wrote: > Stefan Walter wrote: >> >> We do this on a much larger scale though. The bug we ran into is >> in line 96 in utils/mountd/auth.c. The strcpy can corrupt >> memory when it copies the string returned by client_compose() to >> my_client.m_hostna

rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-07-30 Thread Stefan Walter
Hi all, we are seeing rpc.mountd crashes on our Red Hat EL4 systems. We have tracked down the bug and it seems to be still present in the current nfs-utils source. We are making extensive use of netgroups for NFS exports. On a large file server with hundreds of home directories we export every di