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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:41:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin nologin.8
Message-ID:  <20031118103822.C64472@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031118183254.GB49964@regency.nsu.ru>
References:  <200311170008.hAH08SMA032168@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031116191556.25438h-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20031118183254.GB49964@regency.nsu.ru>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:40:18PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 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's presently a shell script, so that isn't possible.  However,
> > it could be converted into a trivial C program as in OpenBSD, in
> > which case it would be very small if statically linked.
>
> Hmm, is there anything that stops us from pulling oBSD's version?
>
> ./danfe

The bikeshed is not over until the "late reply to an early message
indicating the discussion should be started all over again" happens.
Therefore, this bikeshed is over.

Sorry,
-Nate



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