Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 03:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/6188: screensaver permanently active when no bounds checking for blanktime in sysinstall Message-ID: <199804011120.DAA06730@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6188; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 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 03:15:46 -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 I'm sorry, you are correct. It's just as easy to fix there and it actually fixes the problem (completely.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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