From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 15 17:48:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB5437B4CF; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (2683 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:47:36 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-25) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:47:26 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Igor Roshchin , rraykov@sageian.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem using sysinstall In-Reply-To: <20001115140002.B22524@citusc17.usc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; MICALG=pgp-md5; PROTOCOL="application/pgp-signature"; BOUNDARY=O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Well, although we all understand what is "The Good Thing", > > the reality of life makes us to do some compromises. > > I believe, several (I would even say `many' ) > > people on this list have done upgrades > > (either via "make world" or via sysinstall) a) remotely > > Many people like to jump out of planes for thrills, too :-) Yes, but they receive a *lot* of warnings before they do, they see others do it and live. Then, of course, they have a parachute too... (^_^) What about not letting a bin extract *overwrite* files? (I know there is work for that and I haven't offered to do it, but I'm asking to consider it.) When doing an install from scratch, the mkfs has been run, so the filesystem is clean. I don't know what to do for binaries for upgrades, but the current approach doesn't work for that either, right? If I'm off-base, say so and I'll crawl back into the machine room - Jy@ --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: APPLICATION/PGP-SIGNATURE; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Description: Content-Disposition: INLINE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoTB18ACgkQWry0BWjoQKUURACfWGgrhI59QKx/79k8v1ttoseb HZEAnAsvXBvIuhIQbjlwlKw1LrzHmqeY =jO+l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message