Wireless update to ifup and network-functions

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 11:50:40 UTC 2004


Very basically at this point.  The last thing I do is change all the
spaces and -'s to underscores.  I could probably expand that list to
include ,' and ;' and :s.  I will add that to my next set of patches.

Thanks for the input.


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:45:18 +0300 (EEST), Pekka Savola
<pekkas at netcore.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > Here is my first set of working patches.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132661
> >
> > I realize that NetworkManager will eventually help solve this problem.
> >  But I think this is a quick and relatively simple way to get booted
> > up and associated with the proper wireless network.
> 
> Do you sanity-check the input received from the network -- i.e., would
> it be possible for someone to name their AP for example '*; rm -rf /'?
> 
> --
> Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
> 
>





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