Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:00:21 +0100 From: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd UseLogin option Message-ID: <20020313190021.GB1761@frolic.no-support.loc> In-Reply-To: <xzpg034a843.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpg034a843.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Could someone please explain to me why we don't use sshd's UseLogin
> option by default? I know that there was a security hole related to
> that option recently, but that's not a real reason - security holes
> can show up anywhere - so is there anything that makes UseLogin a
> particularly bad idea?
And additionally to that, why is the environment variable MAIL hardcoded
to /var/mail/${logname} (or _PATH_MAILDIR/${logname}) in session.c
although setusercontext() is used? Crap!
-Björn
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