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Re: Sun CDE 1.0.1: login bug
From: casper () HOLLAND SUN COM (Casper Dik)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:28:27 +0200
It's a bug in NIS+, it strips spaces of the beginning when doing name lookups. It's fixed in the latest libc patches. Anyway, what happens is that the prepended spaces make their way into $USER/$LOGNAME and $MAIL and that's where it's quite a nuisance. You coudl work around this in teh Xsession scripts. Newer versions of CDE also have a workaround (simply use pw->pw_name as username) Casper
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