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Re: Fwd: Bug#21810: libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug#21810: libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: 26 Oct 1999 19:50:35 +0200
- Cc: espy at debian dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,21810-forwarded at bugs dot debian dot org
- References: <v0420550ab4161ff786a5@[206.163.71.146]> <199910261717.TAA21188@landau.wins.uva.nl>
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:
|> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:43:47 -0700
|> From: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
|>
|> >On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:24:30AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
|> >> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 02:20:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
|> >> > OK. What happened is that libc6 broke rexec(3) by not prompting when
|> >> > the user/password is not set, then this was incorrectly fixed in
|> >> > rexec.
|> >>
|> >> I can't find anything in the libc docs about prompting for rexec.
|> >>
|> >> What is libc6 doing wrong?
|> >
|> >Historically the rexec(3) would prompt for the username/password if the
|> >arguments were null. libc6 changed this, i.e., it now segfaults rather
|> >than prompting for them.
|>
|> Do you have any evidence that the statement about rexec asking for the
|> username/password is true?
Both Solaris 5.5.1 and SunOS 4.1.4 implement it.
Andreas.
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