X2Go Bug report logs - #327
x2go client crashes if .bashrc prints anything

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: "Dan Halbert" <halbert@halwitz.org>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, wontfix

Found in version 4.0.0.3

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Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#327: x2go client crashes if .bashrc prints
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clone #327 -1
tag #327 wontfix
retitle -1 users can inject data into X2Go Client using .bashrc
severity -1 grave

Hi Dan,

On  Di 29 Okt 2013 12:55:05 CET, Dan Halbert wrote:

> On 10/29/2013 4:36 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> If I put an
>>> echo "testing"   # exact text doesn't matter
>>
>> I presume, this on the server.
> Right, this is on the server. With the Windows client there is no  
> .bashrc anyway. I confirmed with my colleague that he saw this on  
> both the Windows and Ubuntu Precise clients.
>
> Which windowing system chosen on the server does not seem to matter  
> either. I saw it with UNITY and with just "Terminal".
>
>> I could confirm this issue on Debian wheezy or Ubuntu precise as  
>> X2Go Server. On Ubuntu lucid, the problem does not occur.
> That's interesting. The reason for putting in the echo's was to  
> debug a completely unrelated problem about which shell init got run  
> when we were running some batch jobs. I had instrumented the init  
> files before without difficulty. Thanks for looking at this.

I have looked at this in depth this morning. Indeed an echoing .bashrc  
file breaks X2Go. But it also breaks everything else around SSH, esp.  
scp [1, 2].

The first link [1] also provides a solution that I want to quote here:

""" (file: ~/.bashrc)
[... normal .bashrc stuff ...]

if [[ $- =~ "i" ]]; then
   echo "SPEAK OUT LOUD!!!"
fi
"""

The i-flag in $- checks if the shell is interactive or not. With X2Go,  
this flag will not get set.

Greets,
Mike

[1]  
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12440287/scp-doesnt-work-when-echo-in-bashrc
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20527

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