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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Getting started with fixing bugs for Linux Post 302998470 by sreyan32 on Friday 2nd of June 2017 09:55:26 AM
Old 06-02-2017
Bug Getting started with fixing bugs for Linux

Okay I want to try my luck at fixing bugs for the Fedora OS, but I guess this question deals with any Linux distro or any open source OS for that matter.

I want to know how I can start fixing bugs on the OS level. For example the particular bug that I want to target is this logout bug

I mean how do I start with debugging something like this. These may involve OS modules that are already running in the OS, I can get the source, but how do I deploy and test it ?

MOST IMPORTANTLY-:
Can it be done in a VM like VirtualBox or KVM ?
Maybe I can test my "patched" OS there ?

Not sure about how approach this problem. Any of you who does Linux OS bug fixing could really help me out.
 

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PP(1)								NSS Security Tools							     PP(1)

NAME
pp - Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files SYNOPSIS
pp -t type [-a] [-i input] [-o output] STATUS
This documentation is still work in progress. Please contribute to the initial review in Mozilla NSS bug 836477[1] DESCRIPTION
pp pretty-prints private and public key, certificate, certificate-request, pkcs7 or crl files OPTIONS
-t type specify the input, one of {private-key | public-key | certificate | certificate-request | pkcs7 | crl} -a Input is in ascii encoded form (RFC1113) -i inputfile Define an input file to use (default is stdin) -u outputfile Define an output file to use (default is stdout) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects through Mozilla and Fedora. The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI, with a project wiki at PKI Wiki[2]. For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at Mozilla NSS site[3]. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases. Mailing lists: pki-devel@redhat.com and pki-users@redhat.com IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki AUTHORS
The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google. Authors: Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com>, Deon Lackey <dlackey@redhat.com>. LICENSE
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. NOTES
1. Mozilla NSS bug 836477 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836477 2. PKI Wiki http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 3. Mozilla NSS site http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ nss-tools 12 November 2013 PP(1)
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