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Message-ID: <20040712073548.GA14125@DAPCVA.da> 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. -- Vincent ARCHER varcher@...yall.com Tel : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 14 Fax : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 27 Deny All - 5, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris - France www.denyall.com
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