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Re: Fwd: Bug#21810: libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL


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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