[2459] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
pending/193: krb5-beta7: appl/bsd/login.c doesn't preserve TERM env var
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gardiner Myers)
Thu Nov 14 19:57:29 1996
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:56:18 -0800 (PST)
From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm@cmu.edu>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
>Number: 193
>Category: pending
>Synopsis: krb5-beta7: appl/bsd/login.c doesn't preserve TERM env var
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 14 19:57:01 EST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
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>Description:
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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>Unformatted:
login.krb5 doesn't preserve the value of the TERM environment variable.
Fix follows:
Index: login.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/system/portola/cvsroot/security/krb5/src/appl/bsd/login.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -c -r1.1.1.1 login.c
*** login.c 1996/11/02 20:53:38 1.1.1.1
--- login.c 1996/11/15 00:51:54
***************
*** 1312,1317 ****
--- 1312,1321 ----
#endif
(void)fcntl(0, F_SETFL, ioctlval);
+ if ((p = getenv("TERM")) && strlen(p) < sizeof(term)) {
+ strcpy(term, p);
+ }
+
/*
* If talking to an rlogin process, propagate the terminal type
and
* baud rate across the network.
