cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs/src server.c

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> [040125 16:09] wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:08:38PM -0800, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > > nectar      2004/01/25 16:08:38 PST
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5_2)
> > >     contrib/cvs/src      server.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   MFC 1.1.1.14: Do not allow pserver to be run as root.
> > 
> > This was also `Approved by: re'.
> 
> Nice of us to break something that used to work without a deprication/warning
> period. :(

Running pserver as root was already a broken configuration.  This just
makes it more obvious. :-)

Seriously, if we were talking about 4.x I might have more sympathy,
but I believe this is an appropriate behavior to change in a 5.x
release.

Apparently the CVS developers also felt this was an appropriate change
for minor point release.

Finally, there was overwhelming support for this change:  over the past
month I've received several requests for it;  and RE received several
requests to incorporate the change in 5.2.1.

> Note: this is what my earlier mail was about.

I haven't seen an earlier mail on this subject from you... I guess I
could have missed it?

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org jvidrine at verio.net nectar at freebsd.org nectar at kth.se