cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin nologin.8
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at nsu.ru
Tue Nov 18 10:31:21 PST 2003
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
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