Re: identd, revisited

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

H. Morrow Long wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> read a b
> echo $a $b ': USERID : UNIX :root'

Mmmm... wildcard expansion....  You should have a few
quotes in there around $a and $b probably.

Just a thought about that - writing safe shell scripts is a lot
harder than writing a safe C program. And writing safe C
is hard.

mjr.

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