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to: Takumi
from: Angus Mcleod
date: 2004-08-15 21:15:00
subject: This is why FreeBSD...

Re: This is why FreeBSD...
  By: Takumi to Rocko on Sun Aug 15 2004 16:25:00

 >  > Yeah I have to agree here.  At the very least they could have made it
 >  > invisible to everybody but root.
 > 
 > Hiding a security flaw doesn't make it go away.  :P

I think you missed the point, which was that if it can only be run by root,
then why is it not "invisible" to non-root users, as is (for
example) ifconfig?

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