setpmac behavior

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 21 14:18:09 GMT 2002


On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Chris Costello wrote:

> On Friday, December 20, 2002, Chris Costello wrote:
> >    Idle thought: Should setpmac be made to work like su(1) and
> > spawn a shell when no command and arguments are specified?
> 
>    Actually this utility needs a lot of cleanup.  I will post a
> rewritten version of it later on, probably tonight, on my free time. 

At one point, we had a version that did what you suggest, with the shell
execution code borrowed fairly verbatim from chroot(8).  I think it has
long since been lost, but changing it to do that again strikes me as a
good idea. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories


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