Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:55:33 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Subject: Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start' Message-ID: <20090917175533.GD34712@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <200909171914.29389.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <C6D6B22B.127DE%fsb@thefsb.org> <200909171914.29389.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:14:29PM +0200, Mel Flynn typed: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:18:03 Tom Worster wrote: > > On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, "Mel Flynn" > > > > <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: > > >> Tom Worster wrote: > > >>> thanks, Mel, that's good to know. > > >>> > > >>> i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy > > >>> solution for me. > > >> > > >> You could also just put: > > >> > > >> sshd_flags="-o X11Forwarding=no" > > >> > > >> into your /etc/rc.conf file. > > > > > > What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I > > > find myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static > > > partitions are mounted read-only + kern.secure_level. > > > > that's right. > > > > when i read in 11.7 of the handbook: "Since the rc.d system is primarily > > intended to start/stop services at system startup/shutdown time, ..." i > > thought: maybe i'm making things hard by trying to use rc.d scripts when i > > could just execute the daemon's binary. > > One downside I forgot to mention: > You do open yourself up now to SSHD_FLAGS="-o AllowRoot=yes", so you may need > to complicate the logic a bit more, by sanitizing SSHD_FLAGS. Please explain how this can be exploited by a non-root user? Ruben
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