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Re: phantom root login issue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue May 24 12:11:49 2005

From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 01:07, Michael C Spindel wrote:
> I just ran into an issue in which finger and who will report root as
> logged in when it isn't.

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.  This problem is a known bug in the version
of xterm included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.  It should be fixed in
the upcoming Athena 9.4 release; 9.4 is based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4, which includes a new version of xterm.

Bob

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