[902] in Release_7.7_team
I have a trial fix for the Solaris /bin/passwd ^C problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Mar 20 14:52:02 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:51:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
To review:
Under Solaris 2.3, if you type ^C when setting a password with the
vanilla Sun /bin/passwd, it will set your password to carriage return.
This situation was "improved" under Solaris 2.4. It would only do this
SOMETIMES.
The problem has been completely fixed in Solaris 2.5.1.
At my insistance, a back-port of the Solaris 2.5.1 fix has been made and
a test version has been delivered to me.
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Question:
What should we do with this?
The fix consists of installing a new version of /usr/lib/libauth.so.1
and /usr/lib/security/unix_scheme.so.1. These files are currently
stashed in /mit/solarisdev/bugs/passwd.
Miki suggests that we inform the Consultants so that people can be
warned of this exposure, but since we are so close to beginning work on
the Summer release, that the effort of putting out a patch release with
these libraries may not be justified.
I think we should at least test this, and make some assessment of the
cost/benefit.
-wdc
