This allows find to pass files with "illegal" characters to xargs in a
safe manner.
Note: due to the manner in which the file names are now passed between
find and xargs, the files are now sorted differently than before.
The first /etc/security run after installing this change may result
in a lot of output when nothing did in fact change.
Closes PR# 1910.
2.2 candidate.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Check devices too, follow original BSD intention
Find only executable files with s-bits, close PR bin/1022
Reset locale to C to have equal results in any case
Subject: Re: daily insecurity output (fwd)
|From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
|
|This is from the new /etc/security script. I no longer get the segmentation
|violation, but now the arg list is too long, some /bin/sh program want to
|fix the current /etc/security ls command so that it is a pipe insteal of
|a back quoted arg?
|
|> checking setuid files and devices:
|> /etc/security: ls: argument list too long
This uses xargs instead. My slip line's down so I can't check it in
at the moment. Rich
