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To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray),
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2000 21:45:47 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:09:32 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
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Perhaps it's time to add a make.conf variable like SECURE_SUID_ROOT
(or something) and have *all* but the most essential suid binaries
conditionalize their installation modes from its setting.  Turn it on
or off by default, I don't really care, just make it easier to have
things like suidperl without actually mucking with sources.

I have to agree with John that this latest action was somewhat
over-zealous and the only reason I didn't object when I saw it being
discussed was that it was a long thread and I pretty much delete those
on sight now. :-|

- Jordan


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