Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:48:17 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd security check for changed-file vs NFS Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990818084611.33224A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210105b3dfc153f567@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:37 PM -0700 8/17/99, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > If you removed the stat test, I would simply get rid of the -s > > option entirely - require that all files be queued to the print > > spool. > > The administration would kill me. I would prefer to avoid that. > > (note that the check isn't completely removed, it's "only" nullified > for NFS-mounted files. We use AFS for most things here, so the vast Couldn't you turn it off only for NFS mounted files? David scheidt > > Any advice on how to kick AIX so the st_dev+st_ino check will work > right is also welcome. It baffles me why AIX does things the way it > does. It kinda looks like the values it uses are pointers to some The joke about AIX is that it was created by aliens who were given the UNIX documentation, but no example system. I have seen very little that suggests this to be untrue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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