[OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at laptop.org.au
Wed Feb 9 22:59:18 EST 2011


On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> A practical example of how this can be used:
>> http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346
>
> netcfg.sh blindly sources xonet.cfg without any filtering.  Very brave,
> very powerful.  An rm rf / planted by a child in the borrowed drive will
> be instructive.

I don't understand how this is a problem. It's just reading
environment variables from xonet.cfg to insert into config files. It's
not executing anything. Am I missing something?

Sridhar


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