cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c nologin.sh

[Wes Peters]

On Monday 17 November 2003 13:01, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Sunday 16 November 2003 22:39, David Schultz wrote:
> > das         2003/11/16 22:39:39 PST
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sbin/nologin         Makefile
> >   Added files:
> >     sbin/nologin         nologin.c
> >   Removed files:
> >     sbin/nologin         nologin.sh
> >   Log:
> >   Reimplement nologin(8) as a C program.  This allows us to
> > statically link it at low cost and avoid environment poisoning
> > attacks associated with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> I suppose adding the logging done by the sysutils/no-login port would
> make the program objectionably large.  Sigh.  Several times over the
> past five years I considering asking if we should just import my
> nologin and be done with it; each time I didn't pursue it because it
> wasn't worth the bikeshed.

Sorry to follow up to myself, I just wanted to note that syslog and 
getopt don't seem to add much to the size of the executable:

wpeters at salty> size nologin
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1845     260      36    2141     85d nologin
wpeters at salty> ls -l nologin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5430 Nov 17 13:03 nologin*
wpeters at salty> sudo strip nologin
wpeters at salty> ls -l nologin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3796 Nov 17 13:05 nologin*
wpeters at salty> ldd nologin
nologin:
        libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x2806b000)

So this may be worth the bikeshed^W^Wconsidering after the thaw.  
Certainly not important enough to slushie.

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Wes Peters                                              wes at softweyr.com