possible bug in HDB uucp?
Vincent C. Hatem
vch at attibr.UUCP
Wed Jan 25 08:52:30 AEST 1989
In article <1025 at vsi.COM>, friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
} Is this a bug? I'm running Sys V Rel 3.1 on a 3B2/400 with
} (obviously) HDB uucp. I'm in the process of connecting with a
} local site (hi Larry!), and the password I was given included a %
} character. After a handful of failed logins, it occurred to me
} that perhaps the Systems send strings were subject to "printf-
} expansion" (is that a real term?). I tried a password of
}
} %foobar
}
} and I got a floating zero followed by "oobar". I tried doubling
} the % to %%foobar but it still doesn't work. By now, we've
} gotten things to work by using a different password, but this %
} business can't be right...
Very strange... the source code uses write(2) to send the string to the
remote host. It shouldn't interere. It might be mashing the % before then,
such as when it reads it from the Systems file and tries to translate
it somehow. I dodn't find anything that would do such a thing in the
code, though.
Have you tried a backlash before the %?
-Vince
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