On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:02:29PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Echo -n (#48247)
> * Proposed by Raul Miller.
> * Amend policy to say /bin/sh must be a POSIX shell, but with the
> addition that "echo -n" must not generate a newline.
Ugh, I hadn't realized POSIX doesn't specify echo -n has to work. Count
this as a second---many things would break without it.
> Section 3.2 should not allow static user ids (except root=0) (#43483)
> * Old.
> * Proposed by Andreas Jellinghaus.
> * Policy currently allows for static uid' to be hardcoded into
> daemons. The proposal is to change that so only dynamic uid's may
> be used.
Did I forget to second this? I do so now---LSB is going to have to
mandate this anyway I suspect.
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<SilverStr> media ethics is an oxymoron, much like Jumbo Shrimp and
Microsoft Works.
<MonkAway> not to mention NT Security
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