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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FINGER...
Message-ID: <26A61CB1.670F@marob.masa.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 20:48:48 GMT
References: <23917@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <23917@adm.BRL.MIL> STUTROUTWINE%EKU.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu writes:
>
>        Curious problem.... we've a small bug with finger on our system.... it
>seems that if a users userid is 8 digits then a simple finger command (that is
>without specifying the userids... used like a "who" command) then finger cannot
>find the users....

Finger does a strncpy() from the password structure info to an 8 char
buffer, leaving no room for a terminating null -- therefore it can not
find a match when doing a lookup for the fullname info.  I fixed this in
our version by extending the name buffer and explicitly null-terminating
the entry.

Hope this helps.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com
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