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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 1995 20:37:49 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rdugaue@calweb.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ****HELP*****
Message-ID:  <199512022037.UAA21630@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <322.817897922@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 2, 95 01:52:02 am

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Jordan; how hard would it be to generate a file with the md5's of a stock
> > release system's "standard binaries" for this sort of thing?
> 
> Probably not too hard.  Let me think about it.  You'd want a file
> for each distrib, probably.

And a script somewhere for checking it?  Should we perhaps start looking at
a SCO-like "perms" setup?  Is this something that the security and ISP 
people would smile happily upon?

(ie. a distribution-wide listing of md5's, permissions and ownerships, 
burnt onto the release CD for security's sake 8)

> 					Jordan

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