cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin nologin.8

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at nsu.ru
Tue Nov 18 10:37:45 PST 2003


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:32:55AM +0600, 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?

Oops, nevermind, mea culpa.  Should read *all* my mail before replying
to it.

./danfe



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