On 4/27/07, Chris Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Read the web page, it explains the reasoning right at the top. If you are instead being disingenuous (yes yes, I know you are) perhaps you could explain to us why you think this isn't a good idea.
i wouldnt propose to speak for Marco (or anyone else), but perhaps the answer might lie in http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.html#commit (which would also mean that something better, and more system-wide should be worked on instead)? The second reason i can think of is that it's a hack, rather than a correct way of doing things (i forget where i read that from - but then again, u really shouldnt be missing this - but i believe that this is very much a part of OpenBSD's philosophy). One tip for Rico though - given that this is a patch against OpenSSH, of the OpenBSD project, shouldnt u really be considering using the safer version of strlcpy, rather than strcpy? -jf -- "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
