More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Dec 7 23:03:09 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 11:51 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 11:31:54 Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > Both 'vipw' and 'ldapadd' are official and documented tools to manage
> > user database.
> 
> vipw I believe is forbidden due to its ability to circumvent auditing of user-
> subject binding. 

Perhaps I'm a bit slow this morning, but vipw is forbidden but
vi /etc/passwd isn't?

Andrew Bartlett

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