From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 30 7:17: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from threat.tjhsst.edu (threat.tjhsst.edu [198.38.16.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FDD37B43C for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 07:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abarros@threat.tjhsst.edu) Received: (from abarros@localhost) by threat.tjhsst.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4UEGuP21932; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:16:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:16:56 -0400 From: Andrew Barros To: rich@rdrose.org Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd rootkit Message-ID: <20010530101656.D27126@tjhsst.edu> Mail-Followup-To: rich@rdrose.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010530093611.C27126@tjhsst.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sXc4Kmr5FA7axrvy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rich@rdrose.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:23PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux threat.tjhsst.edu 2.2.17 X-I-Graduate-In: 18.7831597222222 days Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --sXc4Kmr5FA7axrvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My apologies to the humor impaired, it was intented to be funny. -ajb On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:23PM +0100, rich@rdrose.org wrote: ->On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Barros wrote: ->> Someone should add it in ports. -> ->Now, to me, that seems like a *reallly* bad idea. Imagine the situation: ->Some not so nice person keeps an eye on the ports tree for software with ->vulnerabilites that are not yet fixed, or indeed uses FreeBSD and keeps an ->up to date ports tree. They will see the words "rootkit". -> ->Can you imagine that? The look on their face. They'll re-read it. They'll ->stop and think for a moment. They'll re-read it again. Then, this thought ->will fly through their mind: "If I ever break into a FreeBSD machine, I've ->got a free rootkit. I don't even need to bother covering my tracks ->cleverly anymore". -> ->I would suggest *not* putting the rootkit in the ports tree, if only to ->save those who have only just installed FreeBSD and are just learning the ->Unix world. -> ->rik -> -> -> ->To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ->with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- --=20 Andrew Barros PGP Key Fingerprint: D3B8 0800 C45A 143E 5CF0 E112 0A1B AB36 B655 1FB8 --sXc4Kmr5FA7axrvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FQDYChurNrZVH7gRAuuNAJ9r6UGvS4wjSHgkyHzib79BuYhCKACfUgJU bkT9ml5ZmeXiSkOKGGwOa2Y= =bRcr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sXc4Kmr5FA7axrvy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message