Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:47:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail-in.net> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/librep Makefile Message-ID: <200105282147.f4SLlvo12462@mail.uic-in.net> In-Reply-To: <20010528142123.C54500@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, 28 May 2001 14:21:23 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:41:39AM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > sobomax 2001/05/28 05:41:39 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > lang/librep Makefile
> > Log:
> > Remove 755 ${WRKSRC}/test script to prevent user from footshooting if for some
> > strange reason he/she has `./' before `/bin' in his/her PATH. Surprisingly,
> > there are *many* such users.
>
> IMO, we shouldn't be encouraging them.
Indeed, but unfortunately otherwise they will keep spamming us with
bug reports, thus we have to choose from two evils...
> I (1/2-serious) think we
> should turn the test script into something that prints a big warning
> about insecurity using figlet :-)
;)
<50% serious mode>
Patches accepted. Perhaps we should "fix" all popular shells instead,
which would solve all similar problems out there.
</50% serious mode>
-Maxim
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