Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug Meeting / AccessSpace NIS

[Matthew Palmer <nospam [at] ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> > I know us Linuxers are used to getting our updates asap, but that's kind of
> > asking a lot, isn't it??
> 
> The two vulnerabilities I refer to (The DEADJOE problem and reading .joerc
> from cwd) are not so much things to be fixed, as things it makes no sense
> to do in the first place.

Reading .joerc from pwd is a good thing under a great many circumstances -
for instance, if you want to enforce certain code style rules for a project,
you can put a .joerc for that directory.


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