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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:28:27 +0200
From:      Hans Huebner <hans@chaosradio.ccc.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/11286: [patch] /usr/bin/w fails with -n flag for certain host names
Message-ID:  <E10aQ5D-000K49-00@berlin.ccc.de>

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>Number:         11286
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [patch] /usr/bin/w fails with -n flag for certain host names
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 22 13:30:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Hans Huebner
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Chaos Computer Club Berlin
>Environment:

-STABLE as of this week.

>Description:

The w command has a flag -n, which makes it print IP addresses instead
of host names in the FROM field.  If a user's entry in the utmp file
contains a hostname with 16 chars, w fails to translate it back to
an IP adress.

>How-To-Repeat:

"w -n" on a system with someone logged in from a host whose name is
16 characters long.

>Fix:

Index: w.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/usr.bin/w/w.c,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -r1.32 w.c
--- w.c 1999/01/10 15:28:37     1.32
+++ w.c 1999/04/22 20:16:12
@@ -337,7 +337,10 @@
                }
 
        for (ep = ehead; ep != NULL; ep = ep->next) {
-               p = *ep->utmp.ut_host ? ep->utmp.ut_host : "-";
+               char host_buf[UT_HOSTSIZE+1];
+               host_buf[UT_HOSTSIZE] = '\0';
+               strncpy(host_buf, ep->utmp.ut_host, UT_HOSTSIZE);
+               p = *host_buf ? host_buf : "-";
                if ((x = strchr(p, ':')) != NULL)
                        *x++ = '\0';
                if (!nflag && isdigit(*p) &&



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