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Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]



On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 12:07:01AM -0400, Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
> 
> Then there should be no test at all because a -f would lead people to
> believe that removing (or renaming) the file is the correct way to
> disable something, which it isn't any more than chmod -x as it suffers
> the same problem.

Huh? The -f test is there so that the script doesn't screw you up when the
package is removed but not purged.
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