[rhn-users] /usr/bin/id SEGFAULTS

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Donald Lambert wrote:

> We have noticed on a number (10+) systems that now after the upgrade to
> RedHat AS 3 update 8 the command id SEGFAULTS.
> 
> Basically if you type as root, id <user> it segs.
> Now if you su to the user and type id.  All works fine.
> If you as root type id, it works.
> 
> It appears to be something with the numeric id of the group, but I have
> not been able to find a pattern, over 30000 sometimes triggers it.
> 
> What I have found is that the /usr/bin/id from update 7 works even on
> the update 8 machine.
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas ?

I have seen it as well after an update from a freshly RHEL3AS U7 install 
to U8. I'm using id in some custom RPM packages and since this was a new 
deployement some of these custom RPM's failed to correctly work since id 
segfaulted.

Kind regards,
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