nisaddent Causes a SIGSEGV Error When Adding to tnrhdb (4491941)

A SIGSEGV error is produced when using the nisaddent -avf command to add an incorrectly formatted file to the tnrhdb NIS+ map. The incorrectly formatted file produces a core dump.

Workaround: The nisaddent command works correctly with a valid input file. To ensure that the input file has fields separated by colons and not by spaces, use niscat -s : when dumping an NIS+ table that will be used later as input to NIS+.