Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:37:54 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: jedgar@fxp.org, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, stanb@netcom.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge differences in suid programs ? Message-ID: <v04220812b48ea5a471de@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <199912281721.KAA12868@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <199912281721.KAA12868@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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At 10:21 AM -0700 1999/12/28, Chad R. Larson wrote: > The -C option to install causes install to make a temporary copy of the > "new" file in the target directory, and then does a byte-by-byte compare > with the "old" one. If they're different, it deletes the old and > renames the new. Sigh. It can't do the comparison with the new file in it's current location, then do the copy if they're different? That would seem to be the intelligent thing to do. > It will be noticably slower. Double sigh. Thanks for the warning. Although it would keep my security notices from being too huge, it otherwise seems to be an option I'm unlikely to use. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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