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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 1998 03:10:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/6188: screensaver permanently active when no bounds checking for blanktime in sysinstall 
Message-ID:  <199804011110.DAA05051@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/6188; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: dmorrisn@u.washington.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6188: screensaver permanently active when no bounds checking for blanktime in sysinstall 
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 03:00:42 -0800

 > /stand/sysinstall does not make bounds checks for the screensaver
 > time-out interval.  When this value is read from /etc/rc.conf at startup
 
 True enough, but considering that anyone can also change the time-out
 value to a bogus one by typing ``vi /etc/rc.conf'' (substitute your
 favorite editor here ;-), I think the fix doesn't belong in sysinstall
 so much as it does in vidcontrol (which should simply refuse to set a
 bogus timeout value, preventing its direct abuse on the command line
 as well).
 
 					Jordan

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