[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#447352: Bug#447352: /etc/init.d/hostname.sh: input sanitizing?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Marc Haber]
> /etc/init.d/hostname.sh hands over whatever it reads to /bin/hostname
> verbatim. This can lead to numerous software doing funny things with
> the host name.

I must admit that my personal stanse on this is that if you fill the
hostname with noise and something break, you get to keep all the
pieces.  I do not believe it is the task of /etc/init.d/hostname.sh to
hide the mistakes done by the system administrator.  Hiding it might
make some program work and others who uses the content of
/etc/hostname directly to fail, and this seem like a bad idea to me.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen