From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: $HOST on OS X
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438C432E-513C-417D-B6E6-246A0FABBE96@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1006051413110.5029@hp.internal>
Le 5 juin 2010 à 20:52, Benjamin R. Haskell a écrit :
> Regardless, OS X is far from the only O/S that'll update hostnames when
> you join a network. And especially on a laptop, it often makes sense.
> For instance, after associating with a university's wireless network,
> your host probably has a different name assigned to it. Why would it be
> bad to update it?
Right, makes some sense.
>> IMO it's a security risk though...
>
> What part, and how so?
Dunno, didn't think much about it, but I suppose it could be a problem when inadvertently joining a network you didn't want to.
In any case it should be possible to disable it, but I've yet to find the setting on OSX.
François.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <A31BDCF6-D2C6-4674-B4D5-86B60347A0B2@chemistry.ucsc.edu>
2010-06-05 14:24 ` William G. Scott
2010-06-05 15:37 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-06-05 15:45 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-06-05 16:55 ` François Revol
2010-06-05 18:52 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-06-05 19:46 ` François Revol [this message]
2010-06-06 15:34 ` Vincent Lefevre
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