From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 12:39:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10499 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10488 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Early-Bird.Think.COM (Early-Bird-1.Think.COM [131.239.146.105]) by mail.think.com (8.7.5/m3) with ESMTP id PAA23102; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compound.Think.COM (fergus-2.dialup.prtel.com [206.10.99.132]) by Early-Bird.Think.COM (8.7.5/e1) with ESMTP id PAA23441; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.Think.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA20379; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:39:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:39:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball Message-Id: <199608161939.OAA20379@compound.Think.COM> To: mnewell@kaizen.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Mike Newell on Fri, 16 August: : On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, michael butler wrote: : : > It would be much better if .. : > : > i) pppd refused to run any 'world' writable script and .. : > ii) syslogged the reason for not running it, : : and/or : : c) pppd could read a file that contained a set of routes which : it installs on startup and uninstalls at shutdown. :-) : I suspect this was a goal of the pppd authorship, but the scripts were an expedient. The problem now is that the scripts are used for much more, so that adding such a feature would not permit one to remove the script execution, making the feature superfluous for the general case -- although still desirable for some subset of pppd users who would then be able to eliminate their own use of the scripts. An interesting case study, that.