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


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>Subject: Bug#21810: Bug#46142: rexec still does not look at .netrc
>Reply-To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, 21810@bugs.debian.org
>Resent-From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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>Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:33:01 GMT
>X-Debian-PR-Message: report 21810
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>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:18:09 +1000
>From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>To: Raul Miller <raul@usatoday.com>
>Cc: 21810@bugs.debian.org
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>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.
>
>Indeed, if we wish to keep the netrc code in rexec as has always been the
>case, then the only place to prompt for missing usernames/passwords is
>in rexec(3) (or actually, ruserpass()).
>
>You won't find anything in the docs because there simply isn't any :)
>--
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>Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)       <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
Debian Package Maintainer for the GNU C Library.

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