Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:50:36 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) Message-ID: <199804221550.JAA03696@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <2234.893226907@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199804220616.AAA02036@mt.sri.com> <2234.893226907@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >I have thwacked the snot out of my system by replacing libc.so to the > >point that nothing except the static stuff in /bin|sbin worked. It > >doesn't happen too often, but when it does the only recourse was to use > >the static stuff to recover, which I was able to do. > > > >With dynamic programs, instead of having a single point of failure, you > >have *many*. ld.so, libc.so, potentially /var/run/ld.hints, etc... > > And of course, you DO keep a boot.flp/fixit.flp combination close at > hand, right ? Of course not. Some of my boxes don't have floppies, and I've yet to find a decent fixit floppy that actually does something. (The one that mounts the CD-ROM works pretty well, but only if the box happens to be running similar release to the CD, and that is rarely the case.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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