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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: docs/1383
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Synopsis: ppp(8) man page suggests using shell script for login shell
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> > State-Changed-By: scrappy
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:38:32 PDT 1996
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 
> > Confirm Status
> 
> Still present.
> 
> There are not much risks with `interpreted executables' other than
> the one described there.  This one however can easily be avoided by
> suggesting
> 
>         #!/bin/sh
>         exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct
> 
> in the man page.

Not true.  Doing so will NOT avoid the problem.

I would suggest that there are other possible risks, but don't have the
time to think through them right now.