Am 17.07.2013 21:15, schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> 
>> NM aparently thinks it's smarter and ignores any settings from
>> dhclient.conf.  This leads to security problems, if one
>> e.g. intentionally told dhcp to ignore properties like the
>> dns-search path, which may be used by a hostile dhcp server to trick
>> you into wrong domains.
> 
> dhclient.conf only controls which options are requested from the
> server, the client will process unsolicited options anyway.
> Therefore, changing dhclient.conf adds zero additional security.

Fwiw, I had already removed the security tag

Michael


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