Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:13258 news.sysadmin:1858 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!rosevax!news From: news@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (News administrator) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews Message-ID: <6811@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 15:16:06 GMT References: <6798@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <591@auspex.UUCP> Reply-To: merlyn@ernie.Rosemount.COM (Brian Westley) Organization: Rosemount Inc., Burnsville, MN Lines: 28 > = Guy Harris >For that matter, I don't remember whether the older (e.g., 4.2BSD) >versions of "vi" had a "nomodeline" option. Not having an older vi, I can't tell either. If anyone has a vi that doesn't understand +set nomodeline[s], they should speak up. >And, even though the S5R3 one has an option like that, it calls it >"modelines", not "modeline", sigh. Not having Vr3, I didn't know this. Feel free to post corrections. Ideally, the configuration program would figure it out itself, and also determine if an editor called 'edit' exists and is a version of ex (I felt 'edit' was too likely to be the name of a non-ex-derived editor and didn't include it in my followup correction). >If you insist on sticking "+set nomodeline" here, rather than in the >user's ".exrc" where it belongs... No, it belongs in any code that puts uncontrolled text into a file and executes a "vi"-like editor. A number of vi's have "modeline" on by default, and many people don't know about it. If Pnews can be made more robust, it should be. Now for a different question... any other common editors (emacs, etc) with a similar hook? Any way to disable it? Merlyn LeRoy