Subject: Re: CRITICAL ** Holes in default cron jobs ** CRITICAL
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/03/1997 21:14:07
In message <199701020848.AAA18909@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes:
: What, precicely, do these new options do? They're only valuable
: if they're necessary (i.e. why add a new option if you don't have do? :-)
They create a stream of tokens separated by NULs so that you can't
spoof xargs into removing the wrong file (say by having a directory
called " etc" that has a file passwd in it).
Warner