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Re: [fw-wiz] identd, revisited

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] identd, revisited
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:50:10 -0500
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H. Morrow Long wrote:
>#!/bin/sh
>read a b
>echo $a $b ': USERID : UNIX :root'

Mmmm... wildcard expansion....  You should have a few
quotes in there around $a and $b probably.

Just a thought about that - writing safe shell scripts is a lot
harder than writing a safe C program. And writing safe C
is hard.

mjr.

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