[ python-Bugs-1465646 ] test_grp & test_pwd fail

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Bugs item #1465646, was opened at 2006-04-06 11:57
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Submitted By: Richard Townsend (rptownsend)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: test_grp & test_pwd fail

Initial Comment:
test_grp and test_pwd fail on PC running Red Hat 
Enterprise Edition V4.2 with Python-2.4.3 and Python-
2.5a1.

See attached file for test error messages.



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>Comment By: Richard Townsend (rptownsend)
Date: 2006-04-07 15:58

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When I run the following script on the workstation

import pwd, grp

entries = pwd.getpwall()
for e in entries:
    if e[2] < 0:
        print e
        
entries = grp.getgrall()
for e in entries:
    if e[2] < 0:
        print e
    
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I get this output:

('nobody', '*', -2, -2, '', '/', '')
('nogroup', '*', -2, [])



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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-04-07 11:13

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We should drop the tests in a selective manner. In this
case, if -2 is in the password/group file, we should be able
to find it: somebody might want to search by a gid value
entered from a user, and that ought to work as well.

rptownsend: could you investigate in more detail what's
going on, on your system?

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Comment By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
Date: 2006-04-06 19:34

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I'm prepared to throw out the fancy tests from test_pwd.py
and test_grp.py. They don't buy us much anyway and basically
test more the OS then the Python modules. (For related bugs
see #779218, #962226 and #775964.)

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Comment By: Matt Fleming (splitscreen)
Date: 2006-04-06 16:48

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AFAIK getgrgid() doesn't handle negative integers very well
(I can't even add a group with a negative gid on my NetBSD
machine).

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Comment By: Richard Townsend (rptownsend)
Date: 2006-04-06 15:42

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The test workstation is getting its password and group info 
from NIS.

The test workstation is running Red Hat Linux, but the NIS 
server is running HPUX 11i.

I believe these are the entries causing the errors:

lancaster:/etc > ypcat passwd | grep '-'
nobody:*:-2:-2::/:

lancaster:/etc > ypcat group | grep '-'
nogroup:*:-2:




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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-04-06 14:01

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Can you post the relevant part of /etc/passwd and /etc/group?

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