From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 19 10:15:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D866637B403; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA85461; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:15:31 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Will Andrews Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20011019120706.T25747@squall.waterspout.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Will Andrews wrote: > But now I'm tired of getting these emails from people who don't > notice the message that kdebase spouts about it. I want to know > if people think it's a safe "risk" to give kcheckpass setuid root > privileges so it Just Works(tm) when people try KDE. Will, I think the actual problem isn't so much the message per se, its the fact its placed in the wrong place. It should be shown at the *end* of the build instead of during the building of kdebase. When you go to build the metaport of KDE2 no one wants to sit there watching the output for 12 hours while it builds. They want to come back and see the familiar "everything built ok" and then install it. If you place it as the message at the end of the build *alot* more people would see the message. Otherwise no one is going to catch it. Just my $.02. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (816) 464-7780 | Sr. Unix Administrator Work: chris.watson@twa.com | Trans World Airlines, Kansas City, MO Home: scanner@jurai.net | http://www.twa.com ============================================================================= WINDOWS: All our IP belongs to us. GNU/LINUX: Touch our IP, and your IP belongs to us. BSD: Here's our IP, just use it. ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message