possible bug in HDB uucp?

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <1025 at vsi.COM>, friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>
> [summary] HDB on a 3B2/400, Sys V Rel 3.1.  In the Systems
> file, a password containing a % is expanded as in printf,
> so "%foobar" ---> "0.00000oobar".

In article <116 at attibr.UUCP>, vch at attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem) writes:
>
> Very strange... the source code uses write(2) to send the string to the
> remote host.

The expansion I'm seeing is in the -x9 *debug* output, and I
guess I didn't check to see if it were going to the other end
that way.

In any case, the remote login worked fine if I went at it with
cu, but no combination of % or %% or \% in the password field would
make it work via uucico.

    Steve

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