Problem in pam_mkhomedir

[Pierangelo Masarati]

Dear PAM list,

I recently had a problem in compiling pam_mkhomedir.c (actually, in 
compiling the whole package) on Solaris 2.8; I managed to work it out, 
and I think I've spotted a bug in pam_mkhomedir.c #ifndef PATH_MAX, 
which affects 0.78 and HEAD.

See the patch at 
http://www.sys-net.it/~ando/Download/Linux-PAM-sysnet.1.2004-11-28.patch 
(for CVS HEAD as of half an hour ago).  A better solution is to 
(optionally?) #include <limits.h>; the rest of the patch is simply to 
avoid leaving broken code around.

A partially related issue is that Solaris 2.8 apparently does not 
support asprintf(), which is used only in libpam/pam_handlers.c, and can 
be easily worked around by a malloc() and a snprintf().  I can provide a 
patch for that as well.

Sincerely, p.



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