Re: RFC: Check permissions of .gdbinit files

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Bob Rossi wrote:

>
>What if we had GDB prompt the user to determine if they wanted to read
>the .gdbinit file in? Then we could add another configuration variable
>to GDB that allowed it to always read in the files. That way, by
>default GDB would be more safe, but for the rest of us, it would work
>the way it always has.
>
I like this idea, or some variation. A developer working in a
less-secure environment can set the variable (env var?) to ask
first before doing, while in an environment like Apple where you
have a thousand engineers sharing files in all kinds of weird ways,
you can set it to "if an intruder gets this far in, .gdbinit is the
least of our worries."

Stan