Re: obscure bug in ftp (osf/1 v2.0 and v3.0)

From: Macintyre L P <lpz_at_nautique.epm.ornl.gov>
Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:51:23 GMT

In article <3fp84h$dsi_at_stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV>, lpz_at_nautique.epm.ornl.gov
  (Macintyre L P) writes:
|>Here's a new and obscure bug. I found it while porting skey to osf/1 v2.0,
|>but it exists on v3.0 as well.
|>
|>If you use a .netrc file with ftp, it truncates your password to 16
|>characters. This doesn't happen if you don't have the .netrc file.
-- 
A clarification:  The real story is that if you get the prompt (username:lpz
in my case) including your username, the password will not be truncated.  If,
OTOH, you type (in my case, user lpz) the password will be truncated.  KSRs
and Intel Paragons (other OSF/1 machines) exhibit this bug, but in all cases,
not just half of the time.  DEC OSF/1 v1.3 has the bug in all cases as well.
It looks like DEC found the problem, but only fixed part of it...
                                 Lawrence
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lpz_at_nautique.epm.ornl.gov                                    Lawrence MacIntyre 
lpz_at_ornl.gov             Oak Ridge National Laboratory          615.574.8696
Received on Tue Jan 24 1995 - 10:34:28 NZDT

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