From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 30 17:42:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA71837B408 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 17:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 265B641; Thu, 30 May 2002 19:42:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:42:25 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Roger Marquis Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc Message-ID: <20020531004225.GA80885@hellblazer.nectar.cc> References: <20020530171719.W7046-100000@roble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020530171719.W7046-100000@roble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:23:57PM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote: > Crist J. Clark wrote: > >Ick. How about, > > > > # /usr/bin/printf "/.X11-unix/s/^/#/\nw\nq\n" | /bin/ed -s /etc/rc > > Why not: > > # rm -rf /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix > > As long as it doesn't specify subdirectory wildcards (.../*) there > should be no problems with links to files outside of /tmp. This message has so far been concerned with the workaround, not the solution. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message