From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 4: 4:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BB137B407 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 04:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a233.otenet.gr [212.205.215.233]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4GB4bHL010314; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:04:39 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4G2oP6m089487; Thu, 16 May 2002 05:50:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4G2oPUP089486; Thu, 16 May 2002 05:50:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:50:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: William Wallace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20020516025024.GB89380@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-05-15 21:12, William Wallace wrote: > > I may be a little out of line here, and I agree that this guy is a > joker, but could somebody explain to me why my telnetd dropped to less > than half of its original size after recompiling? Because it was compiled without Kerberos support? Because it was compiled with -march=YOUR_MACHINE and optimized for your installation? A dozen things could be different ;) What you get when you install a X.Y-RELEASE can be reproduced by rolling your own release with: make release (Well, you might want to set a few things in the environment first, but this is the basic command.) So, there's nothing ``hidden'' in there that you can't see, and check for yourself ;-) -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message