Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:07:36 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <20020202020323.C5891-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> In-Reply-To: <3C5B477D.DCAE125E@mindspring.com>
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-----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
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