From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 2 0: 7:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.ca (epsilon.lucida.ca [216.254.114.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABE8B37B419 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5905 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Feb 2002 08:07:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Feb 2002 08:07:38 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:07:36 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Heckaman To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task In-Reply-To: <3C5B477D.DCAE125E@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020202020323.C5891-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: ... : Determining "source-ability" by sourcing is dangerous. Well, you said make sure it's "sourcable" -- not "source it" :) : You would need to do a "chroot", or run it as a non-priviledged user, : for the purposes of testing, and you would not be able to see some side : effects, if the file contained code, even then. Yeah, but we've also got a file edited by root and root alone, why would root be trying to add all kinds of code in it? I think rc.conf will be failing as it is if people add certain code in it, what do we lose? : Also, people use "vipw" because if you don't, the database doesn't get : rebuilt. There's no corresponding force to make them use it for "virc". You can rebuild the database manually *ducks* -- I know what you're saying though, and I've used things similar to vipw for other daemon config files that had no databases simply for the safety of checking syntax. : All that aside, I'll admit that it would be better than what's there. Yep :) : But of course, that's more of a "Junior Hacker" than a "Junior Annoying : Hacker" task, and, really, what we are trying to do here is raise up : someone to compete with Albert for number of complaints. 8-) 8-o 8-O : }B^). :) * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@LUCIDA.CA http://www.lucida.ca/gpg * * GPG fingerprint - 46D8 5C3B 5499 1D14 F01C 2ADD D1B9 6165 9E16 F8E4 * The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. -- G'Kar, "Survivors" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.ca/gpg/ iD8DBQE8W55K0blhZZ4W+OQRAjqLAKCeMIHPY5g6jhxDKCp42PcDJThmzwCgrpUf NXYHCrKEUqX70qyYFdLESq0= =2VH0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message