On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:30:41AM -0400, Adam Slattery wrote: > Solar Designer said there was a possibility for corrupting the password > file. I think this is with the call to rename(2) but if anybody knows what > he was refering too i'd like to be enlightened :). No, it's not the use of rename(2). You don't check for possible errors most of the time and you treat EOF and errors on input the same. I suggest that you check the list archives for my comments on similar problems in libpwdb and pam_unix. I'll be replying to other messages in this thread later today or tomorrow. -- /sd
