From 4d1186c00397664923f2efc23ddeeca5753a14ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: okuji <okuji@localhost>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 02:22:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix password handling

---
 ChangeLog       | 6 ++++++
 THANKS          | 1 +
 stage2/stage2.c | 6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fac78f7eb..adac95218 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1999-08-09  OKUJI Yoshinori  <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
+
+	* stage2/stage2.c (run_menu): Terminate the string PASSWORD
+	before checking if ENTERED is identical to PASSWORD. Reported
+	by Mark Lundeberg <aa026@pgfn.bc.ca>.
+	
 1999-08-08  OKUJI Yoshinori  <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
 
 	* stage2/stage2.c (set_line_normal): New function.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 838fb066b..870ef6607 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Eric Hanchrow <erich@microsoft.com>
 Heiko Schroeder <heiko@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
 Klaus Reichl <klaus.reichl@alcatel.at>
 Kunihiro Ishiguro <kunihiro@zebra.org>
+Mark Lundeberg <aa026@pgfn.bc.ca>
 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
 OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
 Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
diff --git a/stage2/stage2.c b/stage2/stage2.c
index ccf055462..50511d187 100644
--- a/stage2/stage2.c
+++ b/stage2/stage2.c
@@ -364,8 +364,12 @@ restart:
 		  gotoxy(1, 21);
 		  get_cmdline (" Password: ", commands, entered, 31, '*');
 
-		  while (! isspace (*pptr))
+		  while (! isspace (*pptr) && *pptr)
 		    pptr ++;
+
+		  /* Make sure that PASSWORD is NUL-terminated.  */
+		  *pptr++ = 0;
+		  
 		  if (! strcmp (password, entered))
 		    {
 		      char *new_file = config_file;