From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 23 22:36:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1439A37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 75E981908; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:36:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:36:36 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Scott D. Yelich" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Message-ID: <20001024003636.G1604@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <4.3.1.1.20001023213452.00b84740@ns.live.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scott@scottyelich.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:59:21PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:59:21PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > Would someone please be so kind as to explain to me the rationale behind > that? Why should a user or script have to be forced to get dot files > just because it's running under uid 0? This seems to really have a > major impact on portable scripts ... they have a chance to be dangerous > under FreeBSD now -- due to this setting. Could you please take this to the proper list, thanks. -- Will Andrews - Physics Computer Network wench To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message