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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:04:00 +0000
From:      Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg check --recompute and apache24 deleted files
Message-ID:  <998C9A52-CA84-4B22-AA57-16E3382705B8@rafal.net>
In-Reply-To: <5A861F0D.2030209@gmail.com>
References:  <D784CCCF-1B18-45A5-B8CF-48343BC8DB83@rafal.net> <5A861F0D.2030209@gmail.com>

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> On 16 Feb 2018, at 00:00, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Rafal;
>=20
> I also delete the /usr/local/www/apache24/cgi-bin directory as a
> security leak because I don't use the cgi-bin method.
>=20
> I noticed this pkg checksum test came into being after the 11.1-p4
> security update.
>=20
> As you have shown, this security update is only highlighting the user
> customizing of installed ports/packages. These types of customization
> are not things that need security warnings.
>=20
> This is part of the daily security run report.
> /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/460.pkg-checksum
>=20
> To make this stop add;
> security_status_pkgchecksum_enable=3D"NO"
> to /etc/periodic.conf

Thank you, Ernie, this is very helpful=E2=80=94and I fully agree with =
you that reporting our intended customisations, especially as they have =
been intended to improve security, as security warnings is not helpful =
unless it can be disabled. Your solution, if I understood it, will =
disable checksum verification. However, I think it is valuable having it =
on for =E2=80=9Ceverything else=E2=80=9D that might be surreptitiously =
changed and that I may be unaware of. Ideally, I would like to switch it =
off just for the Apache, or other specified packages. Which is why I =
hoped pkg check --recompute would do that. Maybe it is a bug/missing =
functionality in pkg check --recompute?

Rafal=



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