Re: ~/.hosts patch

Justin Hibbits wrote:
> Hey folks, got an interesting patch.  This adds a ~/.hosts file 
> (personal version of /etc/hosts).  It was written against 6-STABLE 
> about a week before 6.1 was released, and has been sitting collecting 
> dust for the last month and a half.  Currently it augments /etc/hosts 
> instead of replacing it or prepending it.  Any comments?  One 
> suggestion that was made was to make it an nss module so that it could 
> be controlled by the admin.  It probably could use some cleanup as 
> well, just putting it out here for proof of concept for now, and some 
> direction.

Just what exactly is the point of having a user specified hosts file? 
Seems like a bad idea to me, in terms of security.