[10633] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4H: enscript returns segmentation violation if not in passwd file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith `M' Swartz)
Mon Jun 28 15:26:39 1993
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 15:26:30 EDT
From: Keith `M' Swartz <solo26@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: momoney
Type and version: KN02ca 7.4H (3 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
enscript a file
What's wrong:
User is not in the passwd file (whoami returns "Intruder alert.")
enscript subsequently returned a segmentation violation.
What should have happened:
Well, lpr returns an error like so:
"lpr printername: Who are you?"
indicating the problem in a cryptic, but I believe, clear manner.
Enscript should do the same, or return SOME error, but not a seg
violation. The only thing worse is a core dump, and there's no
reason for a program to ever do either.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man enscript, lpr (error is only mentioned in sources, though)
