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Date:      Sat, 02 Sep 2000 16:20:12 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: nsswitch 
Message-ID:  <200009022220.e82MKCG02370@billy-club.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 19:02:46 %2B0200." <41094.967914166@critter> 
References:  <41094.967914166@critter>  

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In message <41094.967914166@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: bothered me:  Why don't we have the option of a per user alias file
: for hostnames ? 

We do.  It just doesn't work with setuid programs at the moment.
cf src/lib/libc/net/res_query.c and HOSTALIASES.  It is disable for
setuid root programs because it introduces some nasty security holes
otherwise.

Warner


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