Problem with klogind/kshd

[Marc Horowitz]

tim at gaastra.net ("Tim Gaastra") writes:

>> One confirmed problem: crashing in login.krb5
>> 
>> Because of:
>> Src/appl/bsd/login.c
>> Line 1193: strncpy(term, getenv("TERM"), sizeof(term));
>> 
>> Apparently, there have been issues with strncpy and alignment problems
>> with the IA64 in the past...
>> 
>> The current kludgey fix has been to make a pointer, assign the getenv to
>> it, strlen the pointer, assign that to a size_t, and then call the
>> strncpy as strncpy(term,<pointer>,<size_t>);

This sounds an awful lot like a libc or compiler bug, not a kerberos
bug.  Perhaps you should fix it there. 

Also, your fix is broken: if $TERM is longer than the term array,
you're guaranteed a core dump.

                Marc