Subject: Re: "Don't login as root, use the su command."
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/10/2000 21:33:09
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> David Brownlee writes:
> >
> > We _could_ change it to
> >
> > if (`tty | xargs ls -l | awk '{print $3}'` != $USER ) then
> > echo message
> > endif
>
> How about:
>
> if ( -e .message ) cat .message
>
> Then you add the warnings to .message, and it is easier to delete
> or modify for local stuff.
The message is output in the 'su -' case, which is bogus.
We have three options:
a) Status quo - NetBSD does the Wrong Thing some of the time.
b) Add several extra processes to fix it, unwanted overhead.
c) Remove the whole thing.
I just cannot abide 'a', and 'b' seems like a bandaid, so I
guess that leaves us 'c'.
Unless anyone really objects, thats just what I'll do :)
David/absolute