From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 06:59:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CA816A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from aconex.com (mail.aconex.com [150.101.159.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420B843D4C for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by aconex.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5L6xA2r017623; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:59:10 +1000 Received: from localhost (pross@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id k5L6x9Lx017620; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:59:10 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: pross owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:59:09 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Ross X-X-Sender: pross@localhost.localdomain To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Mike Jakubik , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Justin Hibbits Subject: Re: ~/.hosts patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:59:50 -0000 On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: > It's useful for cases where you want to add shortcuts to hosts as a user .. and to confuse the admin who is later called by the user who cannot figure out why he cannot connect to a machine added to DNS just recently.. only because the user added a "convenient" shortcut with the same name several months ago. If the user wants a shortcut he can add a variable. It does not overwrite DNS (or wherever your host names come from) names. If you are able to hack your way into a machine you can write this file so later attempts to connect to a remote machine can be redirected (e.g. useful to get login passwords) - you do not need root access to achieve it. I guess there are more ideas for a mischievious mind.. I do not like to administrate a machine with such obscure features. If I want a machine configured by ordinary users, spyware, viruses and other stuff so it behaves weird or badly : I can get it anytime from Microsoft;-) Regards Peter