From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 22 08:51:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04776 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04769 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:51:03 GMT (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16057; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:50:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA03696; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:50:36 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:50:36 -0600 Message-Id: <199804221550.JAA03696@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Nate Williams , Peter Wemm , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) In-Reply-To: <2234.893226907@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199804220616.AAA02036@mt.sri.com> <2234.893226907@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >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