On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54741
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> For everyone interested, this misbehaviour is related to tcsh.
> That's why people using bash don't see it.
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I investigated a bit more the problem. What is breaking util-linux versus
tcsh is just the security patch util-linux-2.11f-pwent.patch
which was added on Oct 09 according to changelog:
* Tue Oct 09 2001 Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- added patch from Olaf Kirch to fix possible pwent structure overwriting
So, we can conclude that people using tcsh has three possibilities:
a) no longer use tcsh
b) keep an older util-linux version knowing there is a possible security
issue
c) change distribution.... hoping that security fixes are better managed
and checked before release!
Can anybody from RedHat please let us know whether:
1) the problem will be in 7.2 as well
2) when a fix will be available (I feel it is VERY urgent due to the
security concerns)
Please don't ask for bugzilla reports, when I made my one I discovered
it was already the duplicate of several others, the problem is really
affecting a lot of people....
Regards
Alfredo Ferrari
P.S. I also discovered that cfdisk, my favourite tool for partitioning,
disappeared from util-linux. Looking into changelogs I found:
* Sun Aug 26 2001 Elliot Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.11f-9
- Don't include cfdisk, since it appears to be an even bigger pile of junk
than fdisk? :)
Is this the correct way to solve problems, that is to remove a useful tool
full stop instead of fixing it? For many operations cfdisk had definite
advantages wrt fdisk, at least IMHO.
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