Bug 18658 - possible problem with $HOME/.terminfo + set[gu]id programs
Summary: possible problem with $HOME/.terminfo + set[gu]id programs
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ncurses   
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Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Reported: 2000-10-08 21:12 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-09 09:17:37 UTC
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-10-08 21:12:53 UTC 
OpenBSD people have issued a fix a couple of days ago for libcurses which
makes it ignore terminal descriptions in $HOME/.terminfo as well as
TERMCAP.

I looked at this briefly, and the the basic idea behind it seems to be
applicable for curses 4.0-5.1 (at least) on RHL.  I'm not sure if this is strictly 
necessary, but probably would be worth checking out.

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/027_curses.patch
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-09 09:17:34 UTC 
We're aware of the problem and its fix (it's somewhat different from the BSD
one); the fixed package will be released later today.
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-11 12:46:37 UTC 
The fixed package is in rawhide; the updates are (still) waiting for QA
approval.
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