On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:10:00AM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: > [...] > >> Yes, what that does is check your /dcc commands to see if they have > >> /etc or /passwd in them, and if they do, print a message "Send request > >> rejected". > > > > Ick, no. If an admin is not running shadow passwds, that's their fault. > > Don't cripple the user needing help with a file in /etc. > > Hmmm, I guess I didn't make that very clear. I was not advocating putting > that code *in* the ircii sources, I was advocating taking it *out*.
You're right, I misread the patch.. hehe Epic doesn't seem to do this to me, I've sent people files from /etc before. Not passwd certainly, but. > (As for copying it to /tmp first, yeah, that *will* work, but why should > we put users through the pain for no reason at all? In fact, I was able > to defeat it by symlinking ~/argh to /etc and /dcc'ing ~/argh/whatever.) There's really no point in having a check, patch away!
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