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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gideon@××××××××××.com, security@××××××××××.com
Cc: gentoo-hardened@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pwdb+pam+propolice failure
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:59:36
Message-Id: 1060362106.16905.144.camel@simple
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] pwdb+pam+propolice failure by security mailing lists
1 Thank you for reporting this. A fix for this problem with pam & cracklib
2 is being worked on right now by the hardened team. We will post
3 something to the gentoo-hardened mailing list when this is ready.
4
5
6 On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:27, security mailing lists wrote:
7 > This was using the completely out of the box standard 1.4 release live
8 > cd. I didn't unmask anything at all, just added stack protection to
9 > make.conf. This is an AthlonXP 2100 (MSI-KT3-Ultra2 w/512MB)Here are
10 > some of the options from make.conf
11 >
12 > CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
13 > CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fstack-protector -funroll-loops -pipe"
14 >
15 > Nothing unmasked or modified (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS commented out, etc) so
16 > this was all standard packages (gcc-3.2.3-r1 and glibc-2.3.2-r1).
17 >
18 > I don't see anything on bugs.gentoo.com for problems with pam and stack
19 > protection, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something before
20 > I submitted the bug. The gentoo propolice project website says that
21 > things should compile out of the box with the proper gcc/glibc used
22 > above.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 10:02, Boyd Waters wrote:
27 > > > security mailing lists wrote:
28 > > > > When building a system from the ground up using stack protection,
29 > > > > emerge system fails while building PAM. It complains the pam pwdb
30 > > > > module did not get built.
31 > > > >
32 > > > > If I rebuild pwdb without stack protection, though it compiled fine with
33 > > > > it the first time, I can then build pam with stack protection without
34 > > > > any problems.
35 > > > >
36 > > > > This was using the base CD and the normal install process with just
37 > > > > -fstack-protection added to /etc/make.conf before bootstrap (stage2)
38 > > >
39 > > >
40 > > > Curious... I did not run into this problem, building a system from
41 > > > ground up with GCC 3.3 --
42 > > >
43 > > > I have an ebuild for a gcc-3.3 that uses the ProPolice patch from last
44 > > > week, which was a more-recent patch than the standard 3.3 that was in
45 > > > portage -- but I see that this is now gcc-3.3-r1 as of 04-August.
46 > > >
47 > > > Have you searched http://bugs.gentoo.org for this situation? It sounds
48 > > > like a good bug report to me! What type of processor are you using? What
49 > > > gcc/propolice version?
50 > > >
51 > > > -- boyd
52 > > >
53 > > >
54 >
55 > --
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58 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
59 Gentoo Linux Developer (Hardened)
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] pwdb+pam+propolice failure Alexander Gabert <pappy@××××××××××.cx>