Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 19:40:56 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <41160.967916456@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 10:31:49 PDT." <20000902103149.W18862@fw.wintelcom.net>
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In message <20000902103149.W18862@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [000902 10:06] wrote: >> >> Since we're on this topic anyway, there is one thing which has always >> bothered me: Why don't we have the option of a per user alias file >> for hostnames ? >> >> I would love to be able to say: >> >> echo "freefall freefall.freebsd.org" >> $HOME/.hostaliases >> >> and be able to say just: >> >> ssh freefall >> >> no matter how the local resolver and/or /etc/hosts file were configured... > >Wouldn't that allow a user to take advantage of a program that has >stripped itself of privledge but still needs to be protected from >changes like that? Uhm, such as ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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