Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:25:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <199812192325.PAA01197@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:22:29 MST." <4.1.19981219152107.06e09da0@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 02:14 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >Automating the WP install in a tidy fashion is close to impossible; I > >tried this with WP7. If you feed the installer keystrokes in order to > >tell it where to put things, the user can't select a printer. If you > >don't, there's no way to force the install location, so you can't build > >a PLIST. > > What did OpenBSD do? I hear they have a port which fixes some serious > security problems. (If you install WP8 as root, or even RUN it as > root, you can open security holes; see Bugtraq.) I'm looking at their port's Makefile at the moment; it's a bit fragile in that it assumes that the user reads their instructions and installs it into /usr/local/corel. The security issues are handled by using a wrapper script; we could probably go with this or something very similar without too much trouble. I'm just bummed by the installation process. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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