Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:44:11 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vapour security check output Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970117083404.10811B-100000@storm.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970117020615.1500C-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > An annoying thing about security check is that if there are ' or spaces > in file names or directories (i deal with MAC people... sigh) you get > lots of error messages. The one i've included is from a system that only > has a few. I have 154 at last count, so i didn't want to overload the > net with my example. :) > > Anyone know of a nice way of fixing this, and if so do you think it's > something that could be/should be included in the standard distribution > (if it already isn't since i last did a make world recently)? Last summer I wrote a Perl script replacement for /etc/security that avoids using "ls" and generates ls-like output using a fixed format. I never got around to testing it (I left my sysadmin job) but I'd be willing to share it with anyone adventureous enough to want to try it... It might just be able to handle filenames with spaces in them, although (since it still uses "find", but that could be coded directly in Perl as well) it may produce some of the same error messages. Guy Helmer, Computer Science Grad Student, Iowa State - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Looking for a stable, standard & free UNIX-like O/S? http://www.freebsd.org
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