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Re: bug in minicom 1.75 ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Hudon)
Tue Sep 1 16:43:09 1998

Mail-Followup-To: Koji <koji@JET.ES>, BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Date: 	Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:14:41 -0400
Reply-To: Christian Hudon <chrish@DEBIAN.ORG>
From: Christian Hudon <chrish@DEBIAN.ORG>
X-To:         Koji <koji@JET.ES>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <000501bdd3cf$d873ca40$a1a137c3@koji>; from "Koji" on Sun,
              Aug 30, 1998 at 06:37:05AM +0200

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On Sunday, August 30, Koji wrote
> Hi all.
>=20
[snip]
> # minicom `perl -e 'print "0" x 1000;'`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>=20

On Debian 2.0 (minicom 1.75-3), I get the following results:

chrish@pianocktail:[~] >minicom `perl -e 'print "0" x 1000;'`
Sorry 00000000000000000000000000000. You are not allowed to use configurati=
on 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=
000000000000000000
Ask your sysadm to add your name to /etc/minicom.users

Also, minicom is not installed setuid/setgid on Debian. (If you want someon=
e=20
to have access to your modem for dialing out, you add them to the dialout
group.)

  Christian



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