On 2014-09-26, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From the noises I hear, in particular on our departamental email, sysadmins
>> might be tempted to "rm -f /bin/bash"
>> from any place they can get their hands on.
>>
>> It might mean that for building/working with Sage one will need a separate
>> install of bash.
>> (or we should switch to another shell...)
>
> I don't think that would help security at all since bash is available simply
> as
>
> os.system('sage-native-execute /bin/bash')
no, my point is that we might need to be able to build Sage on machines
without a system-wide bash.
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