From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 15:28:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01518 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles151.castles.com [208.214.165.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01510 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01197; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812192325.PAA01197@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:22:29 MST." <4.1.19981219152107.06e09da0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:25:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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