On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:41:22PM +0200, Tamas SZERB wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > I have never used this myself, but if someone wanted more, they could always > > do something like 'tsocks bash' and get a shell in which every program they > > ran would be filtered through tsocks. They could even put something like 'exec > > tsocks bash' at the end of their ~/.bash_profile and then they'd always have > > it. (Of course this could be adapted for tcsh and xdm users.) Or am I wrong? > > This has not been tested. > > > > On second thought, for those who want it all the time, they could just put the > > LD_PRELOAD export command in their startup scripts and have an easier time. But > > my point is that no, no more is needed than this script IMHO. > > These two thing do the same in that view, so both of them can be > usable. but this script can make your life easier if you would like to > `sockify' only one application from command line, like the fakeroot does. > > But I asked if this script are OK, or do we need any further thing into > in, for security and handy reasons. Ah, I see. It looks fine to me, since it's just a convenient way to specify an environment variable. It would have no more and no fewer security holes than any operation that sets an environment variable and does nothing else. But maybe I'm missing something; if so, please, fellow d-d's, jump in and say so. - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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