Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:09:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <3C5BC8E2.B0146FC7@mindspring.com> References: <20020202020323.C5891-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca>
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Matt Heckaman wrote:
> 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?
The same reason we check the syntax of the password entries,
rather than letting root and root alone put bogus crap into
the file. 8-).
This is one of the reasons I prefer procedural to data
interfaces, in any case ("proc size mismatch" being
another).
-- Terry
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