Re: [screen-devel] Security bug - Password ignored

[Micah Cowan]

Andreas wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Because this problem was found in the screen-users mailing list in 2004,
> again 2008, and is still present, I'm writing to screen-devel:
> I'm using screen in a ssh-Terminal (Putty)
> 
> .screenrc:
> password
> -> starting screen says "/home/Andreas/.screenrc: password: window required"
> 
> .screenrc:
> password sg-md5-crypted
> --> Screen asks for a password, but I can reattach with any/empty
> password! (Screen asks for a a password!!)

I can't reproduce this in the current development sources (in fact, I
seem to get the opposite problem: no password is accepted).

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