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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:14:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wes Morgan <morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com>
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000704121214.99862C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007040918400.70488-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com>

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I must have missed that commit while catching up from travel.  I don't
like that technique for restarting daemons -- for one thing, it relies on
/proc being mounted.  I have a continuing strong objection to the presence
of "file" in /proc in the first place, as I don't feel it substantially
contributes to useful functionality in /proc.  While the switch from vnode
reference to symlink is an improvement, I'm still not sure any of the
associated complexity is a good idea.  Does anything actually rely on this
behavior, other than sshd now?

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Wes Morgan wrote:

> I hope that there is no way ever in 1e6 years that someone will be able to
> subvert /proc/curproc and get sshd to execute the program of his choice as
> root when it gets HUP'd. I can't think of any way possible, but there are
> 6 billion people out there besides me.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> > green       2000/07/04 08:46:10 SAST
> > 
> > FreeBSD International Crypto Repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     crypto/openssh       sshd.c 
> >   Log:
> >   MFF:
> >   Allow restarting on SIGHUP when the full path was not given as argv[0].
> >   We do have /proc/curproc/file :)
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.13      +2 -1      src/crypto/openssh/sshd.c
> > 
> > 
> > 
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