| Summary: | comsat does not operate properly | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mdharm |
| Component: | biff | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | kasal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-09-08 14:14:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Fixed in comsat-0.10-23. Thanks for the patch. The /dev/pts fix (as found in rawride) may not work (even for you). And if it worked it would allow terminals like pts/../../etc/passwd which may hurt the system a bit ;-) I'm going to mail a patch. The /dev/pts fix (as found in rawride) may not work (even for you). And if it worked it would allow terminals like pts/../../etc/passwd which may hurt the system a bit ;-) I'm going to mail a patch. The <A HREF="http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/data/maildir/4026/1">mail</ A> I've sent contains a patch to be applied to the _rawhide_ version of SRPM. *** Bug 4974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'd like to re-open bug #4026 but don't know how to do it. Thus I send a new bug report. I downloaded the rawhide version -- it doesn't work. If it worked it'd be insecure. So quick! GREAT!!! And thank you for your work! Fixed in comsat-0.15-1. Thanks for noticing! |
The version of comsat shipped with RedHat 6.0 was compiled on a system with a different #define for _PATH_MAILDIR -- the shipped version was compiled with "/var/mail" when it should be "/var/spool/mail". Downloading the src.rpm and recompiling will fix that problem. Also, this version of comsat needs to be patched to allow for the new devpts filesystem. The patch is as follows (this may need reformatting after the cut/paste): --- comsat.c.orig Mon May 19 18:37:50 1997 +++ comsat.c Wed Jul 14 02:59:20 1999 @@ -203,15 +203,6 @@ snprintf(tty, sizeof(tty), "%s%s", _PATH_DEV, line); - /* - * Um. This will barf on any scheme involving ttys in subdirectories. - */ - if (strchr(line, '/')) { - /* A slash is an attempt to break security... */ - syslog(LOG_AUTH | LOG_NOTICE, "'/' in \"% s\"", tty); - return; - } - if (stat(tty, &stb) || !(stb.st_mode & S_IEXEC)) { dsyslog(LOG_DEBUG, "%s: wrong mode on %s", name, tty); return;