I now got my test program reading /proc/self/mem to work, and it seems that neither getspnam() nor getspent() leave "garbage" in memory: no security risk.
Cheers, Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- login, newgrp leak /etc/shadow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
