Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: possible bug in HDB uucp?
Message-ID: <1025@vsi.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 89 04:25:12 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Is this a bug?  I'm running Sys V Rel 3.1 on a 3B2/400 with
(obviously) HDB uucp.  I'm in the process of connecting with a
local site (hi Larry!), and the password I was given included a %
character.  After a handful of failed logins, it occurred to me
that perhaps the Systems send strings were subject to "printf-
expansion" (is that a real term?).  I tried a password of

        %foobar

and I got a floating zero followed by "oobar".  I tried doubling
the % to %%foobar but it still doesn't work.  By now, we've
gotten things to work by using a different password, but this %
business can't be right...

     Anybody?  peter?

     Steve

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