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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:18:28 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/1383
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961023081114.6581B-100000@valis.worldgate.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610230821.KAA24801@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Synopsis: ppp(8) man page suggests using shell script for login shell
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> > State-Changed-By: scrappy
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:38:32 PDT 1996
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 
> > Confirm Status
> 
> Still present.
> 
> There are not much risks with `interpreted executables' other than
> the one described there.  This one however can easily be avoided by
> suggesting
> 
>         #!/bin/sh
>         exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct
> 
> in the man page.

Not true.  Doing so will NOT avoid the problem.

I would suggest that there are other possible risks, but don't have the
time to think through them right now.




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