On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:19:47PM +0200, Ludovic Court�s wrote: > Yes, I was actually thinking about the socket servers, pflocal and > pfinet. As you said, we would need a per-protocol environment variable > such as PFINETSERVER and PFLOCALSERVER. Maybe these variables should > just be ignored for setuid programs.
I didn't say that :) I can also imagine something like SOCKETSERVER=1:~/socket/1 with the possibility to list several of them. where 1 is the protocol number. Note that there is no mapping of protocol names to numbers in glibc at that place in the code right now (IIRC), so you don't really want to add that. > Would it be possible to have glibc changed so that it looks for these > variables before lookup'ing the default servers? I think that it's an > interesting and useful feature which would be easy to add to glibc. > What do you think? Sure, this is a useful feature. As I said, you must be a bit careful in implementing it to stay secure, but I would say have a go at it. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
