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Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions]



On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:57:27AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > It's not wrong as in that it wouldn't warrant a bug report with a severity
> > higher than wishlist.
> 
> It's not wrong at all.  In fact, doing a -x will only mislead people into
> believing chmod -x actually works as a way of disabling something, which it
> doesn't.

It works temporarily. Then again, for temporary measures start-stop-daemon
error output could be ignored...

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