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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:33:26 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cat exploit 
Message-ID:  <17280.905481206@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:24:28 CDT." <Pine.SUN.4.01.9809101623240.13293-100000@dfw.nationwide.net> 

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Aleph One wrote in message ID
<Pine.SUN.4.01.9809101623240.13293-100000@dfw.nationwide.net>:
> 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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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