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| author | matz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2007-08-27 10:15:18 +0000 |
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| committer | matz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2007-08-27 10:15:18 +0000 |
| commit | fd618e22343d82f5ca5ec0d21a476c0a534220d9 (patch) | |
| tree | ca594cb98157258ea7c98ca0237352b6cea72239 /ext | |
| parent | 3ca07d8718a156d2dcc3691bfdd5a0fecfc276d7 (diff) | |
* ext/etc/etc.c (etc_getlogin): update documentation to note
security issue. [ruby-Bugs-11821]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@13284 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'ext')
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/etc/etc.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ext/etc/etc.c b/ext/etc/etc.c index 94c8b6b85f..7c8fba3b8f 100644 --- a/ext/etc/etc.c +++ b/ext/etc/etc.c @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ char *getenv(); char *getlogin(); /* Returns the short user name of the currently logged in user. + * Unfortunately, it is often rather easy to fool getlogin(). + * Avoid getlogin() for security-related purposes. * * e.g. * Etc.getlogin -> 'guest' |