From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 2 3: 9:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B29237B402; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 03:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0015.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.15] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Wy2y-0003gO-00; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:09:28 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5BC8E2.B0146FC7@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:09:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task References: <20020202020323.C5891-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Heckaman wrote: > Yeah, but we've also got a file edited by root and root alone, why would > root be trying to add all kinds of code in it? I think rc.conf will be > failing as it is if people add certain code in it, what do we lose? The same reason we check the syntax of the password entries, rather than letting root and root alone put bogus crap into the file. 8-). This is one of the reasons I prefer procedural to data interfaces, in any case ("proc size mismatch" being another). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message