Hi,

I found two instances where $TERM was used in a shell script without
being quoted (it is quoted everywhere else). This causes an unsightly
error message when using sux on Mandrake.

Just a word about sux: sux is 'su for X', it uses xauth to transfer the
X cookies from the original account to the destination account. It
'highjacks' TERM to transfer the cookies without ever revealing them on
a command line and this is what causes the problem on Mandrake.
Readme: http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml
sux:    http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux


Back to these unquoted TERMs, the 'guilty' parties are:

/etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh in Mandrake 8.1 (or maybe it is 8.0)
/etc/profile.d/alias.sh in Mandrake 8.2



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