Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 17:17:46 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Huge differences in suid programs ? Message-ID: <v0422080fb48d41623ff8@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <19991227134529.D1290@marder-1> References: <199912271336.FAA14584@netcom.com> <19991227134529.D1290@marder-1>
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At 1:45 PM +0000 1999/12/27, Mark Ovens wrote: > The timestamp has changed on the files because make world replaced > them so they're different. Right, but *why* are they so different? Was it perhaps a change in a library, a change in the compiler, or was it that the source code for these programs itself actually changed so much? I understand their being replaced (and why the security report would flag them all), but I don't understand why they were all so different to begin with. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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