From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 25 19:32: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DD6E37B7D3; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA54932; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:32:06 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Chuck Robey Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg/SECURITY In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > I didn't see if you put a way to disable it into your patches. If you > didn't, then, no, you are being too extreme about it. You *can* make it > the default, and it would only serve to increase FreeBSD's security > reputation, but you have to provide a method for folks doing automated > things to ignore it. Such folks already know about it anyways, Kris. > > Overall, if you provide a bypass method, then I think it's a *great* idea. All it does it cats pkg/SECURITY to your terminal. Why would you want to disable this? Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message