[3047] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-appl/697: login.krb5 willfully eits tty window size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (danw@MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 28 14:54:13 1999
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:53:14 -0500
From: danw@MIT.EDU
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To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: nathanw@MIT.EDU
>Number: 697
>Category: krb5-appl
>Synopsis: login.krb5 willfully eits tty window size
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 28 14:54:01 EST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dan Winship
>Organization:
Athena
>Release: 1.0
>Environment:
System: IRIX antharia 6.3 12161207 IP32
>Description:
login.c contains this dubious fragment:
if (!hflag && !rflag && !kflag && !Kflag && !eflag) { /* XXX */
static struct winsize win = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
(void)ioctl(0, TIOCSWINSZ, (char *)&win);
}
which has no apparent purpose other than to confuse the tty
driver about the size of the screen. In particular, if you
have login.krb5 as the getty-invoked login (as on an Athena
machine) and are running NetBSD with the new wscons code,
you'll lose in a variety of obnoxious ways until you run
stty or resize to fix your tty settings.
This code (including the /* XXX */) seems to have come
originally from the 4.3BSD login source. It's not there in the
4.4BSD source.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I nuked that code and everything seems to work fine...
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
