From: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:31:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Relevant BUGIDs: 461089
X-Git-Tag: Linux-PAM-0-76~73
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03d37947ca0f5436d4a0bef27bd50f19acbfe16c;p=linux-pam

Relevant BUGIDs: 461089

Purpose of commit: cleanup

Commit summary:
---------------
remove a compilation warning.
---

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 091a7387..d243742f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ bug report - outstanding bugs are listed here:
 0.76: please submit patches for this section with actual code/doc
       patches!
 
+* pam_unix_passwd: got rid of an annoying warning (Bug 461089 - agmorgan)
 * pam_unix: removed superfluous use of static variables in md5 and bigcrypt
   routines, bringing us a step closer to thread-safeness.  Eliminated
   some variable indirection along the way.  (Bug 440107 - vorlon)
diff --git a/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c b/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c
index 85c0a44d..7f8f6e03 100644
--- a/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c
+++ b/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c
@@ -350,7 +350,14 @@ static int _update_passwd(const char *forwho, const char *towhat)
 	tmpent = fgetpwent(opwfile);
 	while (tmpent) {
 		if (!strcmp(tmpent->pw_name, forwho)) {
-			tmpent->pw_passwd = towhat;
+			/* To shut gcc up */
+			union {
+				const char *const_charp;
+				char *charp;
+			} assigned_passwd;
+			assigned_passwd.const_charp = towhat;
+			
+			tmpent->pw_passwd = assigned_passwd.charp;
 		}
 		if (putpwent(tmpent, pwfile)) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "error writing entry to password file: %s\n",