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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:52:00 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <p0600203dbbe4370a25f4@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20031120095214.GA68334@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031118233432.99345H-100000@fledge.watson.org> <p06002033bbe0acb7b8c0@[128.113.24.47]> <2147483647.1069240727@[192.168.42.6]> <20031120095214.GA68334@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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At 8:52 PM +1100 11/20/03, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>  >--On Wed, Nov 19, 2003, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>  > >
>>  > have a:  chflags ldcache /bin/sh
>  >
>>Shouldn't that be 'chmod +t /bin/sh' ???
>
>Definitely.  Why waste a new bit when there's already a
>perfectly good one that is (or was) defined for the purpose.

Two reasons I didn't suggest that:

a) Well, actually it never occurred to me...

b) I thought that you might want to have this an "admin-only"
    command, so nefarious users couldn't abuse it on a shared
    system.

I'm certainly fine with it using "+t".  Now it's just a matter
of figuring out how to implement it...  :-)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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