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On Saturday 17 August 2002 12:01 am, Ryan Gammon wrote:
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> update-hosts is a paragon of extreme programming, not in the methodical,
> unit-testing sense, but in the reckless and immature sense. He is a
> product of simpler times, and of university experimentation. He deserves
> the right to bear its scars in all their twisted glory. If the need
> exists, let his challenger come in the form of a sleek, new nss enabled
> plug-in, rather than trying to force update-hosts to be something that
> he truely is not.

The users knows what he's doing could be a security problem, yet if he wants 
to do it then let him.  Or if he's getting to be smart, make a new group so 
only members of that group can write to the file.

I'm leaving it as is.

Jon

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Jon Keating                                                        ICQ #16325723
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