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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-04-15 16:19:47 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-04-15 16:19:47 +0000 |
commit | aab496e655f6f7d7a4248a93862c75c4d3aa057d (patch) | |
tree | 4bb075785c2a8fa2f12a763998d47b220523bc54 /usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 | |
parent | 6c4f281c2905197148a7638736a3e5916e5cf857 (diff) |
scripts should be run as root, but are not; add a BUGS entry to that
effect, and comment out the text that says they are run as root
isue pointed out by creamy
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 b/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 index 5af0077d01f..e96ab7aa697 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pppd.8,v 1.39 2012/08/29 18:53:36 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pppd.8,v 1.40 2013/04/15 16:19:46 jmc Exp $ .\" Id: pppd.8,v 1.27 1998/03/31 04:31:08 paulus Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2012 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 15 2013 $ .Dt PPPD 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1168,11 +1168,11 @@ These scripts are usually shell scripts, but could be executable code files instead. .Nm does not wait for the scripts to finish. -The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user ID set to 0), -so that they can do things such as update routing tables or run -privileged daemons. -Be careful that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's -security. +.\" The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user ID set to 0), +.\" so that they can do things such as update routing tables or run +.\" privileged daemons. +.\" Be careful that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's +.\" security. .Nm runs the scripts with standard input, output and error redirected to .Pa /dev/null , @@ -1518,3 +1518,6 @@ in one or other implementation.) .An Paul Mackerras Aq Paul.Mackerras@samba.org , based on earlier work by Drew Perkins, Brad Clements, Karl Fox, Greg Christy, and Brad Parker. +.Sh BUGS +Scripts should be run as root, +but are not. |