cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c nologin.sh

[Gregory Sutter]

On 2003-11-17 13:01 -0800, Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 November 2003 22:39, David Schultz wrote:
> > das         2003/11/16 22:39:39 PST
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sbin/nologin         Makefile
> >   Added files:
> >     sbin/nologin         nologin.c
> >   Removed files:
> >     sbin/nologin         nologin.sh
> >   Log:
> >   Reimplement nologin(8) as a C program.  This allows us to
> > statically link it at low cost and avoid environment poisoning
> > attacks associated with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> I suppose adding the logging done by the sysutils/no-login port would 
> make the program objectionably large.  Sigh.  Several times over the 
> past five years I considering asking if we should just import my 
> nologin and be done with it; each time I didn't pursue it because it 
> wasn't worth the bikeshed.

Wes's no-login port has been around for ages and works just great.
Please just import it instead of creating yet another version without
the logging capability of sysutils/no-login.  Or add the syslog
functionality to the new program.  Thanks.

Greg
-- 
Gregory S. Sutter                     My reality check just bounced.
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