Path: utzoo!attcan!craig
From: craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Bug in su (?)
Keywords: su Bug
Message-ID: <15280@vpk2.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 91 17:42:39 GMT
References: <1086@eplunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: craig@vpk2.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell)
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
Lines: 25

In article <1086@eplunix.UUCP> mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) writes:
 
>I type from one of our vaxen:
 
>	rsh earlobe su
 
>I get:
 
>	Password:
 
>I start typing and my keystrokes are echoed!!
 
>If noone is looking over my shoulder and I type the correct password
>I get stuck in a very strange state.  I can do everything I want, 
>but I have no visible prompt.  
>--Mark.  

This situation also exists as Mark describes on/in Unix 4.0.2.1 (AT&T)
{I just checked}.

I would suspect that this is in some way a rsh bug, but it is just a 
suspicion.

craig