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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin nologin.8
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:40:18PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sbin/nologin         nologin.8 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Document nologin(8) as being insecure in conjunction with a dynamic
> > >   root and suggest alternatives.
> > 
> > Should we simply be making nologin(8) an except to the dynamic link
> > defaults?
> 
> It's presently a shell script, so that isn't possible.  However,
> it could be converted into a trivial C program as in OpenBSD, in
> which case it would be very small if statically linked.

Hmm, is there anything that stops us from pulling oBSD's version?

./danfe