Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: possible bug in HDB uucp?
Summary: A better explanation of the problem
Message-ID: <1033@vsi.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 08:16:46 GMT
References: <1025@vsi.COM> <116@attibr.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <1025@vsi.COM>, friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>
> [summary] HDB on a 3B2/400, Sys V Rel 3.1.  In the Systems
> file, a password containing a % is expanded as in printf,
> so "%foobar" ---> "0.00000oobar".

In article <116@attibr.UUCP>, vch@attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem) writes:
>
> Very strange... the source code uses write(2) to send the string to the
> remote host.

The expansion I'm seeing is in the -x9 *debug* output, and I
guess I didn't check to see if it were going to the other end
that way.

In any case, the remote login worked fine if I went at it with
cu, but no combination of % or %% or \% in the password field would
make it work via uucico.

    Steve

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