Bug#21810: Bug#46142: rexec still does not look at .netrc
severity 21810 important
quit
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:47:55AM +1000, Daryl Radivojevic wrote:
> Package: rexec
> Version: 1.5-1
>
> rexec does not look at the .netrc file at all. As stated in the man page
> rexec should
> look at the .netrc file in the users home directory to find a default login
> and password
> for the specified machine. But looking through the source code bug #34100
> left
> over from version 1.4 from the package is still not fixed. There is nothing
> in the
> source code that will look at the .netrc file.
>
> Note 1: Red Hat has the identical problem (I do not know of other
> distributions).
> Note 2: I managed to fix the problem for myself by hacking into rexec.c and
> merging
> some of the code from the ftp code. (Ahhh.. the beauty of open source.)
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. What
I'm going to do now is to restore the original rexec code and wait for the
libc6 maintainer to fix it. This will have the side effect of rexec crashing
but maybe that'll at least get someone to write a patch for libc6 :)
There is already a bug report about this (#21810). I'm going to raise the
severity because it causes rexec to be unusable in some circumstances.
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