Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc

From: Crist J. Clark (crist.clark@attbi.com)
Date: 05/29/02 

Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:38:52 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: security@freebsd.org

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:36:35AM -0700, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
[snip]

> IV. Workaround
>
> Find and remove or comment-out the following line in /etc/rc:
>
> rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix/*
>
> The following command executed as root will do this:
>
> /bin/sh -c 'echo -e "/.X11-unix/s/^/#/\nw\nq\n" | /bin/ed -s /etc/rc'

Ick. How about,

  # /usr/bin/printf "/.X11-unix/s/^/#/\nw\nq\n" | /bin/ed -s /etc/rc

Next time? 

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                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
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