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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:25:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980422182145.19322B-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804222219.RAA06214@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I'll scream terribly loudly if we even passingly consider making a
> shell shared!!!  Shells are almost never advatageously made shared. 

Then why does our ports system build them incorrectly?!

ben% file /usr/local/bin/*sh  # I edited the output to remove
			      # irrelevancies
/usr/local/bin/ksh:       FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically
linked executable
/usr/local/bin/ssh:       setuids executable, can't read
`/usr/local/bin/ssh' (Permission denied).
/usr/local/bin/tclsh:     FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically
linked executable not stripped
/usr/local/bin/tcsh:      FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically
linked executable
/usr/local/bin/zsh:       FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically
linked executable

# . . .

ben# file `which ssh`
/usr/local/bin/ssh: setuid FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically
linked executable


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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