FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh

Philip Paeps philip+freebsd at paeps.cx
Wed Sep 17 07:11:29 PDT 2003


On 2003-09-17 09:01:07 (-0500), Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:56:51AM -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> > Also, the command as shown doesn't work under csh, you must run under sh
> 
> Good point.  I've always assumed use of the real shell :-) for security
> advisories, but that is not a good assumption, particularly since by default
> the root user has csh.

It might be a good idea just to stick 'sh' in front of the command then, in
which case it should work even if a local setup has some odd shell for root?

 - Philip

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