~/.hosts patch
Mike Jakubik
mikej at rogers.com
Wed Jun 21 04:54:25 UTC 2006
Justin Hibbits wrote:
> Hey folks, got an interesting patch. This adds a ~/.hosts file
> (personal version of /etc/hosts). It was written against 6-STABLE
> about a week before 6.1 was released, and has been sitting collecting
> dust for the last month and a half. Currently it augments /etc/hosts
> instead of replacing it or prepending it. Any comments? One
> suggestion that was made was to make it an nss module so that it could
> be controlled by the admin. It probably could use some cleanup as
> well, just putting it out here for proof of concept for now, and some
> direction.
Just what exactly is the point of having a user specified hosts file?
Seems like a bad idea to me, in terms of security.
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