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Infinite bloat

Posted Aug 9, 2006 1:28 UTC (Wed) by barrygould (guest, #4774)
In reply to: Infinite bloat by jonabbey
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

True was changed from a shell script to an executable due to the fact that running a shell for a user that wasn't supposed to be able to login (e.g. an ftp-only user) created a security hole (ctrl-c could get you a shell).

Barry

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