From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 10 19:33:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23898 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23893 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17284; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:33:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Aleph One cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: cat exploit In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:24:28 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:33:26 -0400 Message-ID: <17280.905481206@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aleph One wrote in message ID : > Because its non-intuitive. How many end users are going to know that > simply cat'ing a file is dangerous? More or less shouldnt protect me. > xterm and rxvt should. Then why are you asking us to stop it? We do not maintain either xterm nor rxvt in the FreeBSD source tree. May I suggest you contact the maintainers of the respective code bases and complain? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message