Re: How to prevent motd including os info

Donald J . Maddox (dmaddoxconterra.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:56:03 -0400

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On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:02:36PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Donald J . Maddox scribbled this message on Sep 13:
> > There may not be ANYTHING *BSD in the jail environment, let alone
> > 'strings'. Again, assumptions.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ummm.. yes there is... can we say ENOSYS?? I knew you could... assuming
> people have write permissions and execute permissions... ^^^^^^^^

When discussing an environment one has no knowledge of whatsoever, it's
not a good idea to assume a lot.
 
For the record, it may very well be impossible to create an environment
that is 100% anonymous, and yet not so crippled as to be useless; however,
it may not be.
 
I find it interesting that all the responses I've seen to this thread
so far seem to assume that the environment will allow compiling and executing
arbitrary code. Why would anybody assume that?

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