Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:39:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com> To: mnewell@kaizen.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks? Message-ID: <199608161939.OAA20379@compound.Think.COM>
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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.
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