Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:30:55 -0700 From: Al_Caro@computrition.com To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>, kde@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, scanner@jurai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <88256AEA.006B1287.00@cinote.computrition.com>
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I agree. personally, I much prefer this Idea over setuid to root. |--------+-----------------------> | | Alexander | | | Langer | | | <alex@big.end| | | ian.de> | | | | | | 10/19/2001 | | | 12:28 PM | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> | | cc: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>, scanner@jurai.net,| | security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG, (bcc: | | Al Caro/Computrition) | | Subject: Re: your mail | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------| Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu): > > How about sending an email message to "root" with this message? It solves > > the problem of the message scrolling by during the installation... > There is no precedent for this in ports. And I'm not sure that > some people want to see this sort of thing... Make a precedent then :) It's a special case, I think it's good. However, you should send mail to the installing user (`id`). Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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