Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 02:39:09 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/librep Makefile Message-ID: <3B14BFBD.6166FE1F@DougBarton.net> References: <200105282147.f4SLlvo12462@mail.uic-in.net>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 May 2001 14:21:23 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:41:39AM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > sobomax 2001/05/28 05:41:39 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > lang/librep Makefile
> > > Log:
> > > Remove 755 ${WRKSRC}/test script to prevent user from footshooting if for some
> > > strange reason he/she has `./' before `/bin' in his/her PATH. Surprisingly,
> > > there are *many* such users.
> >
> > IMO, we shouldn't be encouraging them.
>
> Indeed, but unfortunately otherwise they will keep spamming us with
> bug reports, thus we have to choose from two evils...
>
> > I (1/2-serious) think we
> > should turn the test script into something that prints a big warning
> > about insecurity using figlet :-)
>
> ;)
>
> <50% serious mode>
> Patches accepted. Perhaps we should "fix" all popular shells instead,
> which would solve all similar problems out there.
> </50% serious mode>
Or, we should kill the person who violated the first rule of shell
programming, NEVER name a script "test".
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