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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:00:00 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?
Message-ID:  <20050721160000.GA20526@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <20050721153202.GF880@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On 2005-07-21 17:32, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On 2005.07.21 13:20:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> My thoughts exactly.  The only thing I'd like to add is that the port is
>> that importing it to the base system would probably require someone who
>> steps up and offers to maintain it as bugfixes/features are noticed in
>> the upstream source.  But, I guess, this is more or less obvious.
>
> Personally I have a preference for not having it in the base system
> for the simple reason that we would need to make security advisories
> for it... and while I don't remember any grave holes, there certainly
> have been a few holes over the last year.

True.  Thanks for the followup from the secteam's perspective :-)




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