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From: jgodsil@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Joseph Godsil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: Re: login dumps core
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.195834.18727@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 90 19:58:34 GMT
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Reply-To: jgodsil@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Joseph Godsil)
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> In article <1260@forty2.UUCP> eschle@forty2.UUCP (Patrik Eschle) writes:
> >
> >Our 5.5.02 /bin/login (yes, the one with /var/spool/mail :-) dumps
> >core (in /) when we try to login with a non-existant username.
> >
> >Did others also see this?
> >
> 

 
  I just tested this and yes it does dump core in root (/) when you
  try to login with a non-existant account.


   Joseph M. Godsil  (jgodsil@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
   National Center for Supercomputing Applications