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From: varcher at denyall.com (Vincent Archer)
Subject: No shell => secure?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:29:28PM -0500, Ron DuFresne wrote:
> out that you will most likely end up with an unusable system.  On a number
> of vender OS', if the sh shell of csh shell, hooked to root user and
> startup scripts is not the expected defaults, those OS's fail to function
> properly on and tween reboots.

What's worse, system() (which is used quite a bit, even if you're running
zero shell scripts) usually execs /bin/sh -c "your_parameter" on most
library implementations. Nuke /bin/sh, don't forget to rewrite your
C library.

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