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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin nologin.8
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sbin/nologin         nologin.8 
> >   Log:
> >   Document nologin(8) as being insecure in conjunction with a dynamic
> >   root and suggest alternatives.
> 
> Should we simply be making nologin(8) an except to the dynamic link
> defaults? 

It is pointed out to me that nologin(8) is now a shell script, not a
binary.  I could have sworn that it was a short C program once, but no
longer?  In any case, would it make sense to make it a C program (again?)
and statically link that?  With a dynamically linked root, nologin should
now be quite small as a binary rather than a shell script.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories