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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:40:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c
Message-ID:  <199808261440.KAA05334@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808260158.SAA07564@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199808260158.SAA07564@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:58:41 -0700 (PDT), Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>       root-only.  -c count limited to 100 and defaults to 16 when ping run
>       by non-root user.

OUCH!

Please, if you have to put in such a limit for your users, do it in
login.conf, not hard-coded!

-GAWollman

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