cpsrk@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stuart R Kemp) (12/17/90)
This does not appear to have made it out the first time - apologies if it did. Found a bug in 'finger' on a DECstation 5000, running Ultrix 4.0. Doing a 'finger 1' displays the names of users and accounts containing the character '1', but also displays information for any entries in /etc/passwd that have 2 consecutive spaces in the info field (field 5), or if there is a trailing space before the colon terminating field 5. Am I missing something here? Anyone from DEC care to comment? -Stuart Kemp cpsrk@groper.jcu.edu.au
sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris) (12/18/90)
In article <1990Dec17.023641.2768@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpsrk@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stuart R Kemp) writes: > [about a bug in finger for Ultrix 4.0 on a DECstation] I'm currently running 3.1 on a MicroVAX3600 and have found a bug in finger. If you run finger without any paramters I get Bus error (core dumped) Oh well..upgrading to 4.1 this weekend (and no overtime pay:-( ) so that should get rid of the problem.... -- Stephen Harris Disclaimer: me have an opinion? | Email: ..!ukc!axion!tharr!sweh What an idea! | sweh%tharr.uucp@uk.co.bt.axion Wanted: humour transplant | tharr!sweh@uk.ac.ukc <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK 0234 261804 -->