nss_updatedb error message uncorrectly reports missing libraries

Try apt-get install -f. If you really want a patch for it tell me wich ones must be.

Try apt-get install -f. If you really want a patch for it tell me wich ones must be. They didnt appear in "Recomends"? These are important functions of nss_updatedb? if they are so important, ill change it.

HI Gabriel

It seems that this problem is cause by the program not filtering input, the first argument to the program must be winbind/ldap and it does not filter this properly. This can be fixed by a simple patch so that others won't make the same mistake.

This error is also present upstream

Error summary changed to reflect the real issue as per Francis comments.

This must is related to the dependencies. Install libnss-ldap and it will go ok. Ill make a patch for it. If it continues throwing bugs, tell me and ill make a patch for the real problem.

See you.

This is a patch for nss-updatedb that includes libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap in suggests packages.

See you

Hi

Thanks for submitting your patch. I have looked at it, but don't think it is ready to be included in Ubuntu yet:

1 - The changelog entries are not written in standard changelog "style". For example, this is what I would have made the changelog:

nss-updatedb (10-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Add libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap to Suggests (LP: #302339)

 -- Gabriel Ruiz Manzano <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:42:17 -0300

2 - The Debian maintainer doesn't agree with the changes (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508057#10). You probably want to work with him until we know exactly what we should put in Suggests.

3 - Your patch includes direct changes in config.sub and config.guess. This is probably due to a malfunctioning debian/rules file.

Please correct these problems and upload another candidate debdiff and re-subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors.

Thanks,
David

Gabriel,

The error is not related to dependencies. The program seems not to have a good sanitization of the input, for example if
you try:

# nss_updatedb blah passwd

You get the error:

Failed to load nameservice provider libnss_blah.so.2: libnss_blah.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

If you check the attachment you'll see that the second parameter is never validated when two or three parameters are passed to the program.