Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 21:05:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: paul@freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-libexec@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/getty gettytab.5 main.c Message-ID: <9787.807422700@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:57:36 PDT." <199508030157.SAA15584@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> The point is that we have to find a reasonable compromise between > security and convinience. We should, by default, ship secure, and > make it convinient for someone to slit their own throat, if, and only > if, they've been warned that they'll slit their throat. Well, I'm already compliant on that first part (the change to gettytab's default was backed out), what sort of dire warning would you suggest for the second? I am honestly taken aback at the amount of ire that this particular change has caused though! I truly expected it to just sort of sail in with maybe a few "huh, interesting hack" comments at the most and instead I encounter this. I can't, however, really help but be convinced by this latest exchange (and I'm sorry if it brands me as a narrow minded Stallmanesque neo-communist or something) that both Pauls here have way too much free time on their hands if they're truly worrying about things at such a petty level. Sorry, that's just the way I see it. Jordan
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