Re: ldconfig

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 17:39:32 EST


I consulted two experienced sysadmins (well, as experienced as you're
going to get if you're part of one of the few successful ISP startups,
like Dave is), and this is their opinion:

Jeff says:

  You think it would ask first, wouldnt you? From the "security" section
  of the man page:

    "In addition to building a set of hints for quick lookup, [ldconfig]
    also serves to specify the trusted collection of directories from
    which shared objects can be safely loaded."

Dave says:

  I'm with Jeff here. It should prompt the user before running
  anything which changes a system-wide parameter such as the ldconfig
  path. Alternately, it should support a separate target, "make
  touchup" which does the sensitive parts of the install.

        - Godmar


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