Bug 51262
Summary: | tcp_wrappers parses control characters | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa> |
Component: | tcp_wrappers | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.3 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-10-07 13:58:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Tom "spot" Callaway
2001-08-08 20:15:11 UTC
I don't think that this warrants to change the original source code and probably maintaining it for this package. Can you give an example on how a broken new file might get in place with control characters? Thanks a lot, Florian La Roche a broken new file, never (unless we start editing the rpm defaults with windows... heh) but a broken file on an edited system is a very likely system, and something thats difficult to debug (we had a support issue on this yesterday) since control characters don't show up in vim/emacs. my belief is this: tcp_wrappers will never have a hosts.allow/hosts.deny service that has control characters in it, so it would be very nice of it to ignore control characters as it parses. this would make debugging problems with customers faster, and not require the use of a hex editor. Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now. |