Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 02:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/19119: un-forbid x11/XFree86-4 and unbreak its xterm Message-ID: <200006080910.CAA39616@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/19119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/19119: un-forbid x11/XFree86-4 and unbreak its xterm Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:07:34 +0200 Thus spake Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net): > The port is forbidden because of a security problem, for which I've made a > patch. Also, the xterm shipped with it has an annoying bug, which Thomas > Dickey, the maintainer of the program, has corrected: There might be more security problems. The real problem is running it setuid root, and not with a wrapper, as the 3.x ports did, which is also the correct fix. That of course doesn't mean, that your patch is incorrrect, I only say, that it still should kept FORBIDDEN. Did you back-contribute your patches to the XFree86 authors? Alex -- This is a FreeBSD advocacy ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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