From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 23 02:59:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09211 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA09205 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08305 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:58:55 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id LAA06988 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:58:14 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.0/keltia-uucp-2.9) id LAA18519; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:33:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610230933.LAA18519@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:33:36 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/1792: new port, splitvt References: <199610222106.OAA27196@dog.farm.org> <199610230345.UAA10803@relay.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2584 In-Reply-To: <199610230345.UAA10803@relay.nuxi.com>; from David E. O'Brien on Oct 22, 1996 20:45:59 -0700 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to David E. O'Brien: > Wow! Never knew that existed. Nice. I guess the only reason for the > port now is for compatiblity across systems. Beware that splitvt was the target for a CERT advisory because one of the version had a security hole you could drive a PPro running Linux through (splitvt originated on Linux). The latest version has this fixed but we probably should read the code carefully as it has to be setuid root... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #25: Tue Oct 15 21:13:57 MET DST 1996