-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:38:46PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > > I've put together a patch that lets ssh work around the OS bug that > > allows bind to follow symlinks. > > There isn't general consensus that this is an OS bug. We (as in > FreeBSD) have installed a workaround consisting of blocking symlink > following for the case, but we have not yet decided if we should make > this permanent. > Look at bind(2) definition of latest Single UNIX spec, and pay special attention to errno values (ELOOP is there). > In my opinion, ssh is clearly the buggy party here; not following > symlinks in the OS is just a workaround to avoid buggy programs > causing problems. Right. - -- vix http://home.cyber.ee/vix/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/pMl3lRrtGcyfHdAQF+LwP9E4D42xJMWxvZtJ/D7BIfdN+okohM98Gj I5L/+UYfIC3LztjHmAKQbjTIQPkGLcPrmhokRL9bwc32DdEb9cqHsSaqe77GNVEH S485ouIfIIai84bOfQlvVbcdZ0eSktfEHRGNErN1vPxJ06fe/MOzgjmkGKi1mM30 xJRCEe9rRWg= =NE4F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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