Subject: wu-ftpd-2.4 bug (?)

From: giorgos adamopoulos <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:16:47 +0200 (EET)

Hi,

While FTPing from a Sun to an Ultrix box running wu-ftpd-2.4 (no *Hobbit*
fix, no academ.com beta)  I had the following session:

sun% ftp ultrix
connected to ultrix.
220 ultrix FTP server (Version wu-2.4(8) Wed Mar 1 01:12:39 EET 1995) ready.
Name (ithaca:george): f
					  ^^^^---note this!
331 Password required for .
Password:
		 ^^^^--- CR
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp> user USER
331 Password required for USER.
Password: PASSWD
230 User PASSWD logged in.
           ^^^^--- ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
sun%

Fortunately, syslog does not log the password, which is revealed on the 
terminal though.  Is there a patch for this bug?  Does it exist on the
other versions arround (academ beta and *Hobbit*'s)?  Does it happen only
on Ultrices?  I've repeated this many times from many ftp clients to the
ultrix server.

I'd like to see the list's comments on this.
-- 
 giorgos adamopoulos ([email-masked])

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From: giorgos adamopoulos <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:34:46 +0200 (EET)

> 					  ^^^^---note this!
For pagers that do not show the whole line:

Name (ithaca:george): f^H 
					   ^^^^---(ctrl-H)
-- 
giorgos