From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 9 11:55:20 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CD437B401; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f89ItBi65506; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:55:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f89GH8J17855; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:17:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200109091617.f89GH8J17855@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tip/tip Makefile src/gnu/libexec/uucp/cu Makefile src/gnu/libexec/uucp/uucp Makefile src/gnu/libexec/uucp/uuname Makefile src/gnu/libexec/uucp/uustat Makefile src/gnu/libexec/uucp/uux Makefile In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon of "Sun, 09 Sep 2001 01:43:30 PDT." <200109090843.f898hUj32094@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 17:17:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :> 1.7 +2 -1 src/gnu/libexec/uucp/uux/Makefile > : > :Why are you doing this ? You need to protect the parent directories > :if you hope to protect the contents. > : > :This just prevents foot-shooting. > : > :-- > :Brian > > Go back and read the whole thread, you obviously haven't. Thread ? I hadn't read any of it before I saw the commit. > This is starting to get repetitive. *THINK* people! I didn't understand your commit message to mean you were preventing the owner from overwriting their own binaries... After reading the thread on -security, I completely agree with your commit. > -Matt -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message