Bug#21810: Bug#46142: rexec still does not look at .netrc
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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