On mer., 2010-03-03 at 14:56 -0500, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Package: xfce4-terminal > Version: 0.2.8-5 > Severity: normal > > > We had a user with a failed login attempt on one of our servers using > non-ascii characters for the username. When xfce4-terminal tries to > 'cat' the file, the terminal becomes unusable. The behavior is the > same as if you tried to 'cat' a binary file. > > I am reporting this as a bug because both xterm on my Debian Lenny > machine, xfce4-terminal on 0.4.8 on my Pentoo testing VM, and putty > all do not show this behavior. > > The backport depends shown below are left over from when I tested the > xfce4-terminal from lenny-backports. The xfce4-terminal was tested on > this issue with both the regular depends from Lenny, as well as the > depends from Lenny-backports. > > I can not include the entire file but I can include the offending > line: > > Mar 2 16:50:53 psc login[7508]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM PC-ortize FOR > 0001, Authentication failure
I can display this message correctly in mutt, so it's at least not reproducible on recent enough xfce4-terminal. I'll try to reproduce on unstable too, but in the meantime, could you try to reproduce using another vte-based terminal (like gnome-terminal)? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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