Re: "make test" for lwp 0.04 fails on last test

Roy Fielding (fielding@beach.w3.org)
Sat, 09 Sep 1995 19:10:56 -0400 

>Can you track down what fails for you?  This test tries to copy the 
>/etc/passwd file to /usr/tmp using the getprint() and getstore() functions.  
>Is /etc/passwd read protected?  Are there problems writing to /usr/tmp?  Is 
>there a problem in the library?

Yikes!  Please tell me you are joking here.  I would ban the software
on principle alone for even thinking about copying /etc/passwd.
Please change it to something that won't raise the hair on the back
of any security person's neck (i.e., the README file that comes with
the distribution is a far more appropriate target).

 ....Roy T. Fielding  Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
                      Visiting Scholar, MIT/LCS + World-Wide Web Consortium
                      (fielding@w3.org)                (fielding@ics.uci.edu)