Bug#374525: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#374525: Bug#366546: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote:

> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > As a first reaction and as one of the shadow maintainer, I'm now
> > inclined to agree with the choice of the FreeBSD team here.
> > 
> > The rationale is clear...
> > 
> > I'd like to hear the one from OpenBSD to put nologin in /sbin
> > though.. they might have a different definition of what goes in /sbin
> 
> FWIW, nologin was in /sbin in BSD 4.4; this is almost certainly why
> OpenBSD still has /sbin/nologin.
> 
> I moved FreeBSD's nologin to /usr/sbin two years ago, because
> 1. nologin needs to be statically linked to avoid linker environment
> security issues,

Key word in this case is "avoiding". If some bad things sits in ld.so why 
not fix this directly ?
Also strange thing IMO is in this case is nologin static linking. Yes I 
know about ssh pass LD_* but IMO fixing this by static linking is 
incorrect way because this is only next "avoiding" ..

kloczek
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