Re: bug in finger


Piotr Klaban (makler@man.torun.pl)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:22:43 +0100


On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:58:33AM +0900, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> The following appeared when I was trying to find mirror sites for the Free
> Software Foundation. I was trying to finger fsf from orion.et.byu.edu.
>
> Hope this is helpful to you.
>
> Carl Sorensen
> carl_sorensen@byu.edu
>
>
> orion% finger fsf@prep.ai.mit.edu
> [prep.ai.mit.edu]
> Signal "SIGSEGV": Segmentation violation signal

I do not know is this is the bug that has been
fixed in the latest cfingerd, but this could
exists because of log() function tries read
from ident_user, and ident-user is at the moment NULL.

I have sent patch a few days ago, but there is no answer yet
from anybody on the list.

Regards,
Piotr Klaban



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